family duty
Relative's expected commitment
Family duty is the obligation one feels toward relatives—caring for aging parents, supporting siblings, attending gatherings, maintaining relationships.
The phrase implies these aren't optional but expected, often regardless of personal desire: She moved back home out of family duty.
Family duty can feel like a burden or a source of purpose, depending on the family and the person.
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- moral obligationEthics-based required action
- loyaltyFaithful commitment to another
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
filial · devotion · sacrifice · care · elder care · taking care of · tradition · respect · ancestors · elders · heritage · commitment · burden · expectation · bloodline · lineage · blood ties · obedience
- duty
- Family Storiesmother-daughter, father-son, childhood memories, maternal bonds, kitchen talk
- filial pietyhonoring parents, obedience, respect for elders, gratitude, elder care
- cross-culturalcultural clashes, cross-cultural romance, cultural adaptation, cultural hybridity, hybrid identity
- Roman Fatherhoodpaterfamilias, Aeneas, Cato, Brutus, ancestral rites
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
family dutyself-interest
Concern for personal advantage
individualism · careerism · egoism · self-centeredness · looking out for number one
family dutypersonal freedom
Control over one's life
autonomy · self-determination · independence · personal choice · free will
family, duty, families, familial, familiar, familiarity, familiarize, familiarization, unfamiliar