Because of different cultures and customs.
Most Americans will be independent when they reach the age of 18, and they will go to college on scholarships or part-time jobs to complete their studies. If you can't go to college, you should find a job early to earn money to support yourself. Parents' obligation to support their children ends when their children reach the age of 18.
Children who live in their parents' homes as adults will be laughed at; In addition, there are many old-age care institutions of various grades in the United States. After the elderly can't take care of themselves, they will enter the old-age care community or old-age care institutions to spend their old age. It must be bleak to have no relatives to accompany you in your later years, but American society recognizes this state of old-age life. ...
Old Americans don't spend their whole lives running for their children.
The tradition in the United States is that after 18 years old, the elderly will not run for their children all their lives, so they are not so demanding and dependent on their children. As soon as our country has the shackles of children, we put them on. When we get married, buy a house and watch our grandchildren do housework, we have spent a lifetime of money and time for our children. Of course, if we pay more, we will ask for more in return. It is natural to ask children to provide for the aged and accompany them.
Especially in rural areas, old people have worked for their children all their lives and all their money has been given to their sons. Because there is no pension, it is ok to catch up with children's filial piety. If their children are not filial in their later years, it will be very sad. Some people in their seventies and eighties still have to work, regardless of whether their children are willing to go to society or not, and they don't want to think that residents' pensions are not taken for nothing, but have been insured for decades. If farmers save all their money instead of giving it to their sons, why don't they have pensions?
Americans love two things best, either being young or being rich.
Being young means having the opportunity to change one's destiny, while being rich means solving most of life problems, which is still meaningful in a highly competitive modern society. When Americans enter middle age, men will actively exercise to keep fit, and women expect beauticians to help them stay beautiful forever.
Therefore, Americans are very concerned about aging, and there is a cruel reality behind it. Wealthy old Americans are still chic and happy without children. However, most old Americans are just ordinary people, and their old age is very unfortunate, otherwise Americans would not emphasize "youth" so much.
Normal American old people will accept aging frankly, but when it comes to age, they will look lost and show a look of pretending to be brave. This is an unavoidable fact. In many American movies, you will see the end of the close-up of the old man: when he is old, he is accepted with dignity, but it is hard to hide his helplessness.
Do poor people and rich people live the same life in America?
People who have a pension and have saved 40 1k all their lives are the same as those who have only paid social security tax and worked odd jobs all their lives. The United States is not a welfare country, but a country that encourages individual struggle! Most of your pension benefits are bought by yourself.
If you don't work hard when you are young, your family will be unreasonable. When you are old, no one will take care of you, and life will be miserable when you are old. Of course, I have saved a lot of money, and my relatives often come and go and mix after retirement!