filial duty
Offspring's familial obligation
Filial duty is the obligation children owe their parents—respect, obedience, and care, especially in old age.
The concept is central to Confucian ethics but appears across cultures.
Her filial duty kept her from moving away.
The phrase often surfaces when family expectations conflict with individual desires.
- elder careAssistance for seniors
- aging parentsMother and father advancing in years
- parenthoodState of having children
- ConfucianismChinese ethical philosophy
- respectRegard with honor
gratitude · obedience · ancestor worship · emotional support · financial support · home visits · loyalty · honor · inheritance · virtue · ancestry · parental authority · moral philosophy · humility · family obligation · lineage · kinship · blood ties
- dutiestask, obligation, moral obligation, responsibility, mandate
- duty
- family dramafamily bonds, sibling rivalry, family reunion, kinship, family secret
- Family Relationshipsfamily dynamics, emotional support, caregiving, communication, family expectations
- daughters in literatureCordelia, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Scout Finch, Antigone
- father-son themesfathers, sons, fatherhood, father figures, absent fathers
filial dutyparental duty
Guardian's required care
parental responsibility · parental obligation · maternal duty · paternal duty · parental care
filial dutyelder neglect
Failure to care for aged
estrangement · disownment · ingratitude · patricide · matricide
filial dutyindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
self-determination · personal autonomy · self-interest · egoism · selfishness