BENEATH & BEYOND | Parenting: Love beyond compensation

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BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
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Saturday, May 6, 2017
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“IS IT right for parents to demand support from children in exchange for raising them?”

If you were in the shoes of Sirene Sutton, Binibining Pilipinas candidate, 2017, you can either answer “Yes” or “No”  or “Yes and No” depending on the kind of family and the educational attainment you may have.

There is no end for parents’ love to their children and it is beyond monetary consideration. A child exposed to a closely-knit, loving family does not need to be reminded how he or she was brought up. Selfless parents do not demand support from their children. Love, sensitivity and gratitude from their offsprings are naturally given back, particularly, in their old age.

There are parents, however, who demand support even beyond the capacity of their children, and there are children who ignore the needs of their aged parents despite all the love and sacrifices bestowed on them.

Contained in the Civil Code of the Philippines are the obligations of the parents to take care and support their children and to give them education within their capacity. Correspondingly, children have the obligation, too, to support their parents.

Are you a parent? Do you demand support though you are still able to earn a living? Are you a child who gives without being asked or gives only when asked or forever asks without growing up?

If you watch how the eagle trains its eaglets to fly, you will see the semblance of a parent allowing his eaglets to fend for themselves and to discover the strength of their wings by support, and by allowing them to fall and to explore the wild.

Parent eagles destroy their nests for the eaglets to have their own. (delsocorrodaquila@gmail.com/PN)

 

 

 

 

 

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