Pharmacy Daily | DISPENSARY CORNER 15 April 16

COMPULSORY filial love. Chinese adults who fail to visit or contact their ageing parents may find themselves losing a little love from the Chinese government according to local media CaixinOnline. New regulations set to take effect in Shanghai 01 May this year will require offspring to “visit and send greetings often” or face the prospect of losing some of their credit rating. The move has been prompted by the mass exodus from regional China into big cities as younger people search for work and city life, deserting their parents, a particularly offensive thing to the Chinese extended-family culture. Children are expected in Chinese society to support their parents financial and emotional wellbeing, CaixinOnline reported. Since 2012, the majority of China’s population has been located in cities with the over 65s population expected to swell to 330 million by 2050 from around 110 million today. GENDER revealing hairdresser. People having their babies often go to great lengths to announce the gender of their unborn, having received notice in writing from their obstetrician. Some refuse to look at the notification and hand the revealing responsibility to a cake-maker ready for a gender-reveal party or a sign-writer, to make the announcement. One creative mother-to-be in the United States called upon her hairdresser to make the reveal - you can guess the gender from her coif.

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