Unfulfilled grandparents

Elderly parents suffer a loss when their friends are becoming grandparents and they are not.

1. Increasing social comparison
2. Decline of the extended family

1. Limited social guidance from older generations

1. Possessive attitude of parents
2. Lack of freedom of movement of children of separated parents
3. Childlessness

1. Disrespect for elders
2. Boredom of the elderly
3. Bereaved children
4. Abandoned elderly