Imagine your parents are some fucking drunk deadbeats that can’t even afford the gas on their car and you’ve somehow managed to make it out of bumfuck nowhere and start a family of your own with your own income, and a trade, only for your deadbeat parent to suddenly use what little money they have to hire an attorney and shove paperwork through your door demanding you maintain them.
so yeah it’s shitty when somebody gets ordered to alimony (where a husband has to maintain the lifestyle his whore wife that’s divorcing him has become accustomed to- unless he can argue to the court that she was abusive to him or the children) but this is even worse. At least your whore ex wife continued your genetic line if she gave you kids but imagine being sued by your own parents excuses you succeeded where they were just fucking deadbeats lol.
So as far as I can tell this is unique only to America. Even Britain which is as retarded as America on alimony and requiring husbands to give everything to their ex wives doesn’t allow for parents to demand their adult children maintim them. Only America.
After what my kids put us through while we have been raising them, if we are impoverished or ill when we are old, they better reciprocate every diaper change, every meal, housing, etc. Kids are a pain in the ass, even though we love them. Keep in mind, kids can't bring in an income (unless you're on welfare and dependent on the system). Honestly, all parents have had to make numerous sacrifices, time, money, etc. to even raise kids for 18 years or more in some cases. It would be interesting to see what the laws even actually say in these 26 states. If a parent raised the kids their whole childhood, and the adult parents can demonstrate financial or health needs where they would need assistance from their adult child, it is a form or reciprocity for the child to at least help the parents for a minimum of the time the parents helped the child, which for most American families, would be 18 years. Seems fair, in my opinion. Then again, I was also raised up in a family where we took care of our great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents until their deaths at home. And, yes, I am an American living in America. I expect to help to take care of my in-laws and remaining parent until they die too, free of cost, because I love them. This ain't Canada, where we euthanize everyone.
It's a way for the state to get out of maintaining old people... putting the responsibility on their kids.
Depending on your point of view that would be the right thing to do.
HOWEVER. Various states also allow father to legally abandon the children so they can get out of child support. Many men take advantage of this opportunity to no longer be fathers.
Kids should also then have the right to disown their parents.