‘Are they vampires?’: Chinese parents sue daughter they abandoned for refusing to buy brother apartment, causing national outrage
- Parents who abandoned their daughter at age of 2 reappear after learning she has money and demand that she buy her younger brother an apartment
- When she refuses they take her to court claiming she has to support them financially and court agrees with the parents, causing outrage across China
A 29-year-old woman in China is being sued by her estranged parents after she refused to buy her younger brother an apartment.
The woman, surnamed Zhang, from Guangzhou in southern China, is being sued for 500,000 yuan (US$72,000) in “maintenance” by her birth parents, Shandong Business Daily reported.
Zhang has no relationship with her parents who left her to be raised by her father’s sister when she was two years old.
They had little interaction with their daughter over the following years and Zhang now considers her aunt’s family to be her biological family.
It was only recently when Zhang used her savings to buy an apartment for her cousin whom she grew up with, that her parents suddenly reappeared in her life.
They demanded that Zhang buy her biological brother, whom they had kept, an apartment as well.