According to a survey carried out in 2020 by the Pew Research Centre in India, approximately 35 percent of the respondents reported that sons and daughters should bear equal responsibility in caring for parents as they age. By contrast, during the same time period, only one percent of respondents felt that daughters alone should bear the sole responsibility in caring for her parents.
Opinion poll on which gender should bear primary responsibility of parents in India in 2020
22,975 Hindus, 3,336 Muslims, 1,782 Sikhs, 1,011 Christians, 719 Buddhists, 109 Jains and 67 respondents who belong to another religion or are religiously unaffiliated
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Pew Research Center. (March 2, 2022). Opinion poll on which gender should bear primary responsibility of parents in India in 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 04, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1300729/india-opinion-on-which-gender-should-bear-primary-responsibility-of-parents/
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