The provision of special care for the elderly in old age differs from country to country and clime to clime. For example, Africans and Europeans are not similar in culture; as each family in Africa caters for their own elderly people in their space, Arecent finding has shown that about 75 percent of fathers in Africa, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, suffer abandonment from their wives and children they hope to depend on in old age. Findings show that mothers are culturally privileged to travel down to take care of their newly born grandchild, leaving the father in hunger and loneliness. Most fathers suffer seriously in this regard when their wives overstay in the course of catering for their grandchildren. Is itthe economic situation in Africa that makes it hard to take care of the African fathers and oneself ?