Supporting the elderly is an obligation of children, and they cannot refuse to perform it. The Civil Law has clear legal provisions on this. If the children do not perform this obligation, the parents can seek help from local neighborhood committees, village committees, public security bureaus, women's federations and other institutions, and ask them to help mediate and dissuade. If the relevant maintenance agreement is reached through mediation, the other party must perform it.
 If the mediation is invalid or the children fail to perform the agreement, the elderly can sue the court to ask the other party to perform the maintenance obligations or enforce the maintenance agreement through litigation.
 If the children do not support the elderly, causing serious harm to the elderly, it may constitute a crime of abandonment. The elderly can report to the public security bureau, and through the way of prosecution by the public security organ or private prosecution, they can make a request to the court to judge the other party's abandonment crime, and the court will convict and punish the suspected abandonment behavior.