Outsourcing parent care

Recently a 69 years old person whom i know very well met with a serious accident. He was admitted to a nearby hospital and was immediately moved to the intensive care unit. Next day i visited the hospital. There were many relatives waiting anxiously outside the intensive care unit. Of all of them assembled there , the only person whose age was less than 50, was a girl aged 23 who was running to all the places including pharmacy, canteen and the doctor's room. She was really shattered by the incident as well as these running between places. I heard many of them saying "wish Mr. XYZ was here to help us" and "wish Mr. PQR was here to help us". Now this Mr.PQR and Mr. XYZ are all young men from this family who are now well settled abroad. The helpless older generation really wish there were some young men in their family who could run around and support them during hard time like this!!!

This is the new scenario from the agricultural villages of Kerala. Same should be the case with other villages in other parts of India where Information Technology boom has blessed the educated youth with lucrative job offers abroad. Today the average youth from Kerala has only one dream. Get a job in Information Technology arena and some how settle in U.S.A. or marry a nurse and leave India to countries like U.K. or Ireland. This uncontrolled flow of youth towards foreign countries has made the left behind older population really helpless during there hard times. Most of the families are today left with helpless old men and woman. Today they stay in big palatial houses their kids have built them.....all alone........waiting to see their grand children for the first time............fighting with the maid to get a good meal.........begging with the driver to take them to a temple or church.....................May be someday we could outsource parent care.......

In a way they should be happy...their kids are minting dollars for the generations to come!!!.