Book Review: Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Filial Piety in Early Buddhism

Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it was “a Buddhist compromise with the Brāhmanical ethics of filiality operating at the popular level.” On the other hand, Gregory Schopen, who mainly...

The Effect of Cultural Justification and Filial Piety of Married Children on Their Caregiving Behavior

This study investigated whether cultural justification or filial piety had a higher applicability to cultural values that affect care-giving behavior in the Korean cultural context. Ultimately, cultural justification, rather than filial piety, showed to have a greater effect on care-giving behavior of married children in Korea.

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Ethical Dimensions and Filial Caregiving.

The elderly are growing rapidly today as life expectancy increases. As this longevity has increased, so has the need for filial caregivers. While much has been written about caregiving stress, little has been written regarding the ethical dimensions of filial responsibility and daughter and son caregivers' perceptions of responsibility and moral demands. This paper will address the concept of f...

Filial piety and psychological well-being in well older Chinese.

Chinese older persons (N = 164) recruited from social centers responded to a survey instrument tapping the perceived filial behaviors of children (close vs not close), and the degree to which these behaviors matched personal expectations (filial discrepancy). Across all kinds of filial behaviors, providing attention when the parent was ill or distressed was perceived to be the least performed a...