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In “Confucian Theory of Norms and Human Rights,” Wejen Chang writes, “Only when a father behaves as a correct father can a son be expected to behave as a correct son.”
Filial Piety and Family Violence in China
Is there a connection between China’s emphasis on filial piety and high rates of elder and child abuse?
By
David Volodzko
February 11, 2016
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Chinese often say, “filial piety is the most important of all virtues,” and it’s observably true.
The Chinese reality show “Where Are We Going, Dad?,” about celebrities and their kids, attracted a heart-stopping
75 million viewers per episode. And last month, the reality show “The Greatest Love,” about celebrities and their parents, became China’s
most watched show. In an article about the show, Sue-lin Wong
writes, “there is no human trait more important than filial piety.”
Except a 2001 study of Chinese elder abuse
found a prevalence of 22.8 percent, and a study six years later
recorded a prevalence of 36 percent. The lead author of the second study, Xinqi Dong of the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago,
says it’s rare to see Chinese parents report their own children for abuse, suggesting that the actual rates may be significantly higher.
This month, Dong released research
showing that filial piety may indirectly cause stress and depression in caregivers. His findings showed that Chinese adult children reported feelings of isolation, anxiety, chronic insomnia, and restlessness. Among those who have kids and are simultaneously caring for their parents, 40 to 70 percent showed signs of clinical depression. This, he says, may increase the likelihood of abusive behavior.
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But elder abuse is only half the story. Confucianism stresses a son’s respect for his father (Confucian language is arrantly sexist), but the doctrine of the Rectification of Names says that fathers have responsibilities too. In “Confucian Theory of Norms and Human Rights,” Wejen Chang writes, “Only when a father behaves as a correct father can a son be expected to behave as a correct son.”
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And yet, according to a meta-analysis of 47 studies, the prevalence of physical child abuse in China was found to be
36.6 percent, which is “significantly higher than either the international or the Asian estimate.” Not only this, but child abuse is commonly associated with filial piety, as in the expression
bang xia chu xiaozi, or “filial sons from cudgels come.” Spare the rod and spoil the child, in other words. Kwong-Liem Karl Kwan, professor of counseling at San Francisco State University,
writes, “Filial piety includes certain moral principles that are conducive to child abuse.”
One of these is the view that, as the
Global Times put it, filial piety supports “the idea that children are parents’ property.” This echoes Jill E. Korbin’s
Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, which says that according to the tenet of filial piety, children were “the sole property of their parents” and “could be dealt with in whatever manner their parents chose,” including “severe beatings, infanticide, child slavery, the selling of young girls as prostitutes, child betrothal, and foot-binding.”