DoYOuGiveMoney

I guess cultural? It's a way to make their remaining days easier and more colorful, if you will. We grew up below lower class and I say that because almost everyone I knew as "lower class" was hoarding cash and getting every benefit under the sun from the government in a major metropolitan area. We were making $1100/month and rent was $1200/month poor.

As I am their age when they raised me and am in the 1% of earners for my age bracket, I would like to do what I can to make their lives a little more extravagant for my own conscience.

My parents were abusive and negligent towards me though they have tried gaslighting my childhood. I don't gift out of a sense of duty but for my own conscience. My father is elderly, my mother is not in the best health, and I realize my time with them is short.

That's fine. Getting perspective from different countries is useful.