“My mother had never made a scathing remark about our expatriation until last summer, when she suddenly started repeating that if she slipped in the bathtub, she would already be buried by the time we manages to return
,” sighs Élise, who has been living in New Zealand for almost 5 years.
Not to mention that my sister finds her depressed, that she forgets to cook herself, in short, she is declining.
And I'm 18,000 kilometers away, with a husband and children who have made their mark, I don't want us to have to rebuild everything... I'm staying, but it's hard to accept, I have the feeling of betraying my filial duty.”
The aging of parents forces families to make particularly painful trade-offs in the context of expatriation, explains Alix Carnot, whose company regularly surveys the community of French people living abroad.
Thus, among those declaring having refused an expatriation,
“7% indicate having done so because of aging parents
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