By working very hard, the elderly people of my father's generation managed to take care of their parents while they raised their own families. Now that they themselves are old, they unexpectedly find themselves being "let go."
我的父執輩這一代的老年人，辛辛苦苦地安養高堂、撫養子女，卻在他們老的時候意外地被「放生」了。