养儿防老

1. • to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age

     of parents

Character by character

• 养(yǎng)raise
• 儿(ér)child
• 防(fáng)protect
• 老(lǎo)prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity