Abstract:
Abstract: This survey shows a positive correlation between parents’ input in their children’s education and the reward from their children. Through the questionnaires from 54 parents in rural areas in Guangdong Province whose children are university graduates and now work in cities, this paper investigates how rural graduates reward their parents in such aspects as annual financial reward to their parents, emotional communication with their parents and influence of education input on the parents. With the parents’ willingness to follow their children to cities or stay in rural communities to support themselves as a variable, the paper tries to find out the factors influencing the selection of patterns for providing for the rural aged parents from the perspective of both the parents and their children. The result reveals that the selection of patterns for providing for these parents is less influenced by their children, although most of them would like to follow their children to live in cities.

Key words:  pattern of providing for the aged, education reward, rural parents, factor analysis