Industrialization has led to a breakdown of the extended family, which was really how elderly people were taken care of before. We can never insure 100% of the population against 100 % of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen," he says.
But somehow it got very scary.
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