{"id":1174,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/elderly-chinese-man-seeks-adoptive-family-so-he-wont-die-alone\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T00:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:10:04","slug":"elderly-chinese-man-seeks-adoptive-family-so-he-wont-die-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/elderly-chinese-man-seeks-adoptive-family-so-he-wont-die-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Chinese Man Seeks Adoptive Family So He Won\u2019t Die Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

A desperate octogenarian in Tianjin, northern China, has taken his search for a \u201cloving\u201d family to fliers so that he won\u2019t end up dying alone in a nursing home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A desperate octogenarian in Tianjin, northern China, has taken his search for a \u201cloving\u201d family to fliers so that he won\u2019t end up dying alone in a nursing home.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Dailymail<\/p>\n

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In handwritten ads posted around the city, Han, 85, promised that he\u2019s strong-bodied and can cook, shop, and take care of himself, noting that he has no chronic diseases.<\/p>\n

The retired employee of a scientific research institute added that he receives a monthly pension of 6,000 yuan ($915).<\/p>\n

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Photo: pear video<\/p>\n

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Han has been all by himself since 1984. He has two sons \u2014 one moved to Canada in 2003 and actually supported his search for an adoptive family.<\/p>\n

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Photo: nextshark<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Beijing Youth Daily, he shared that he decided to put himself up for adoption after hearing a similar story few years ago. He has since received countless calls, but none took him home yet.<\/p>\n

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Photo: pear video<\/p>\n

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Han maintained that he doesn\u2019t want to live in a nursing home.<\/p>\n

He had stayed in some previously, but after visiting more, he complained about the food and claimed that some are only interested in their pension.<\/p>\n

Han\u2019s story went viral quickly, with some blaming his family \u2014 and even him \u2014 for what\u2019s happening. Others believe the situation will become more common as time goes on.<\/p>\n

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Photo:nextshark<\/p>\n

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Netizens wrote on Weibo:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow desperate it is for a family to put up such note? I hope that he can have a warm home and that his sons wake up!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren are unfilial because their parents did not teach them how to be filial.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m out of breath. I can only stay with my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith society aging, there will only be more of this phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never let my parents end up in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: Nextshark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A desperate octogenarian in Tianjin, northern China, has taken his search for a \u201cloving\u201d family to fliers so that he won\u2019t end up dying alone in a nursing home. A …","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[60,353,1070,306,29,34,559,27,54,214],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-e-china-cities","tag-elderly-chinese-man-seeks-adoptive-family-so-he-wont-die-alone","tag-hiredchina","tag-jobs","tag-jobs-in-china","tag-marketing","tag-news","tag-sales-manager","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11906,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/11906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}