AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Miller, the need of elderly parents obliges their adult children to act on the duty of beneficence, implying that “adult children must promote their aging parents’ ends and happiness as those aging parents conceive of them” (Miller 2003, p. 193).

Detailed explanation-2: -Filial responsibility or filial obligation laws create a duty for adult children to care for their indigent parents when the parents cannot afford to pay for such care (Moskowitz, 2001). The support typically includes expenses related to food, clothing, shelter, and medical needs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, being a son or a daughter of one’s parents, one is obligated or has a duty to respect them as parents and to take care of them if they necessary, no matter whether one chose to be the son or the daughter of one’s parents.

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, if the mother does not wish to speak to her child, then her child is no longer positioned to provide the good in question; that is, staying in touch with her mother. The child, however, may still have other filial obligations.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the U.S., requiring that children care for their elderly parents is a state-by-state issue. Some states mandate that financially able children support impoverished parents or just specific healthcare needs. Other states don’t require an obligation from the children of older adults.