Adult Children and Eldercare: The Moral Considerations of Filial Obligations

摘要: This essay investigates the demands on adult children to provide care for their elderly/ill parents from a socio-moral perspective. In order narrow examination, question pursued here is agent-relative: What social and moral complexities are involved child when parent(s) need care? First, this article examines our society’s expectation that morally obligated parents. Second, articulates how transgressing against normative can inure significant criticism. The final sections present these tensions within context of disability.