Tehran, YJC. Expert says that children who are put in nurseries tend more than others to send their parents to nursing homes when grown up.
Asghar Mohajeri in an interview with Dana Khabar believes that
respect for the elderly has been long a component of the Iranian culture. But it
has started to fade off with the wave of technology and industrialization that
so overwhelms the society. In a lot of countries families send their elderlies
to nursing homes due to concern for their health and sanitation. But this can
expose the elderlies to serious emotional trauma.
The same is true in the case of children who are sent to
nurseries by their parents. This can both benefit and harm the child. While their
parents send them for care and education, the children might also become prone
to emotional shortcomings that show themselves in the form of detachment from
family.
Researchers have found that among those who have sent their
parents to nursing homes the majority have spend some of their childhood in
nurseries.
The findings also show that 60 percent of the children to
have gone to nurseries put their parents in nursing homes.
Mohajeri believes that healthcare has turned a handy excuse
for families to assign their parents to nursing homes while they can be well
treated inside the family.
Mohajeri believes that as parents assign their children to
nurseries, they must let them understand that they do it only on conditions of
education, being apart from the family never constituting a reason for doing
so.