Rather they look on lots of children as a means of helping them in their old age.
Still others argue that people ought to have children so there will be someone to care for them in their old age.
If ordinary Chinese knew that their health would be looked after in their old age, they would save less and spend more.
The team has previously created images of how Hollywood stars Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Elvis Presley might have looked in their old age.
The family, rather than being the source of financial support and a basis for entrepreneurial support, are now a burden to support in their old age.
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The little girl is the daughter of the youngest of eight sons, and is being brought up by her grandparents, who she will look after in their old age.
Former cabinet minister David Blunkett has warned that families, neighbours and "younger older people" will have to take a more active role in caring for people in their old age.
Seniors in this group are on Medicare and have presumably paid taxes for all these years towards this program that is now caring for them in their old age, as it should be.
In the fullness of time, perhaps men will think likewise and have some of the sperm of their carefree, mutation-free youths frozen in case they fancy a little procreation in their old age.
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There are of course plenty of young people who are very wealthy, those inheriting property in London and the South East for a start, and, as Caroline Abrahams from Age UK makes clear, millions are still living in poverty in their old age.
In one recent survey, 66.2% of Chinese high school students said they planned to take care of their parents in old age.
Ministers are looking at introducing a cap on the amount for which people are liable when funding their care in old age.
Low real interest rates imply that workers should save a bigger sum for their old age in order to generate their desired income.
Few homeowners ever take out these loans, and those who do, paradoxically, may be putting their financial security in old age at greater risk.
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They see their democratic rights and their age-old liberties symbolized in their national flag.
We want to think that our parents will be healthy, fine, live happily until a ripe old age and die peacefully in their sleep.
In exceptional cases, companies maintain their vigor into old age.
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Even as images on cards, or as ornaments hanging in a window, angels perform their age-old function as messengers and mediators between the seen and unseen, or material and spiritual, worlds.
Now the problem comes, of course, because the closer you are to pension age, the more you hit the sort of cliff face, as it were, and somebody at 59 or in their early sixties with a 65 year old pension age is literally in no really different position than a pensioner.
If someone borrows in their 60s, and spends the money right away, that will leave them with fewer financial resources in old age when they may need those funds the most.
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This is because it falls in part on money that people were setting aside anyway for their old age, which should be unaffected by the prospect of the tax, as well as on intentional legacies.
When 26-year-old actress Amber Heard and 36-year-old photographer Tasya van Ree went public with their relationship in 2010, age wasn't at the forefront of reports the way it was for Carey and Cannon.
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Nike, Apple and even sneakerhead brand Onitsuka Tiger feel like age old next gen challenger brands with the right ethos deep in their souls.
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By cashing out their home equity now, many Americans may be spending what has been a vital cushion in old age for past generations.
In this new focus on error-free medicine, hospitals are dropping age-old assumptions that their doctors are doing a good job and instead are measuring performance and issuing report cards.
Henman is now 28, moving into old age in an era where only the incomparable Agassi and Sampras have managed to maintain their best form into their late 20s and beyond.
Were Congress to raise the retirement age to, say, 70 years old, this would provide all the leverage these companies need to raise the retirement age in their own corporate pension plans allowing the companies to defer paying the benefits they promised their workers and provide more time for these companies to deal with these underfunded plans.
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