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Jesus Christ kitten! That's shocking. They lose all their money stupidly and then can go after their kids money? Where is the incentive to be an adult responsible for their own actions, like we teach our kids to become in the first place! I'd be fucking livid.
It comes from an attempt to instil traditional values of filiel piety - that as parents support their children, children must return the favour to their parents and support them in their dotage. It is a more communalist mindset and I can see how it could work harmoniously in the past but in our current day and age... I have major issues with this on a philosophical level because no child asks to be born. Every parent should care for their child without the expectation of something in return
"Every parent should care for their child without the expectation of something in return."
That is exactly how I feel. My children owe me nothing. I expect only the reward of being able to love them and guide them as they grow up, accompanied by the bittersweet paradox of knowing they must embark upon their own life journeys some day. They won't be around forever and neither will I (in a different sense). I don't expect my kids to be my carer or my provider and I wouldn't ask it of them. But I can see how in the past, as you say, things were different and it would've worked differently.