Your comment at the end made me think of a story I read a while back. https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/comments/9sbeqy/visiting_parents/e8noava/ htt

Your comment at the end made me think of a story I read a while back. https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/comments/9sbeqy/visiting_parents/e8noava/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/comments/9sbeqy/... While the story doesn't mention an "obligation" of the elder generation's children, I think it brings out a very interesting point. Unlike the US/ Western Europe, in Russia, and likely other previously-Soviet countries, there isn't a noticeable divide between those with rich parents and those without. No one has rich parents.