"Many of you have accumulated or will inherit large fortunes directly or indirectly due to our hard work and sacrifices, you accept the fat of the land as your due and for your own pleasure, without even gratitude to those few that still live who helped to make your fortune. Your indifference to our condition is one of the crimes of the ages. We don't want your charity or money." At this point I interrupted the old man with a question, "Aren't you too critical and too severe in your denunciation of children?" "No, not when I speak of those whom the shoe fits. However, I am not condemning all children; and in justice to a great many of them, I have heard of and seen many good children who have taken care of their old parents. A recent war hero who was given $15,000 by a magazine for his story immediately placed it as a trust fund for his mother. I know of others who have helped to finance an income property purchase to help a father. Others have ruined their future lives and their opportunities by being saddled with the burden of supporting their parents and families. Talented children have abandoned their education and training at an early age to go to work to help support their parents or to contribute to the upkeep of younger brothers and sisters. Many of them have been forced to remain old maids and bachelors on account of their parents. "Society in the long-run loses in this antiquated practice of shifting the burden of responsibility to young shoulders. To my mind, the support of old people is a social problem that should be taken care of by social security boards. Help and protection from these boards would rehabilitate families made destitute by the burden. Society as a whole would greatly benefit by creating new trained members and workers. Society owes all of us a moral obligation and a just debt. It should give us compensation, not charity. We ignorant human beings, up to now, have not made any concerted effort to solve our problem. Yes, a beginning has been made, but it is inadequate.