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.
That is interesting, I wonder if proximity is a determining factor. If you live in the same state and move to a state without such laws could they still garnish your wages? Would you be able to claim them as dependents? Sounds like really shitty parents
I literally had the exact same thought. My parents have always been really good all of us and so I couldn't imagine not taking care of them if they needed it, but still that thought popped in my head that "what the hell happens if you're all the way across the country"
Commandment 5: “"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12 ESV; Deuteronomy 5:16)
“Honor your father and your mother”: This command is wise and good, because honour for parents is an essential building block for the stability and health of all society. If the younger generations are constantly at war with older generations, the foundations of society will be destroyed.
To honour one’s parents includes to prize them, care for them, and show respect or reverence for them. The command is given to children, but it continues until the day your parents die. This is not a popular doctrine in our modern world, where youth is worshipped, and old age dreaded or despised. The result is the folly by which men or women strive to remain eternally youthful, which they soon find is an impossible endeavour bound for failure and disappointment.
Children must obey their parents in the Lord: for this is right (see Ephesians 6:1; Colossians 3:20). Like in many other instances, God has established a hierarchy. Whenever we attempt to rebel against this hierarchy, we suffer the consequences. As a child, rebelling against your parents is rebelling against God, a fruitless endeavour that will always end with negative consequences. Furthermore, for outwardly professed Christians who are called to follow Christ, whenever we rebel against the authority figures God has placed in our lives, we are blaspheming His name to others who are observing. Whilst men and women who have left the house of their parents either in marriage or independence no longer need to obey their parents, the requirement to honour them remains; namely to prize them, care for them and show respect or reverence for them.
Furthermore, in Matthew 15:3-9 and Mark 7:7-13, Jesus Christ implies that this commandment obligates children to relieve their parents of their necessity, especially in their old age. This means that as we become mature and capable ourselves, we must care for our parents, taking care of their waning independence and increasing needs, not abandoning them. In these passages Jesus used the way the Pharisees interpreted this commandment as an example of how one might appear to keep the law with a limited interpretation yet violate the spirit of the commandment.
“that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you”: In Ephesians 6:2-3 Paul repeated this commandment, emphasizing the promise stated here; “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land”. Rebellion is costly, and many have paid a high price for their rebellion against their parents. God promises to extend the lives of those who honour their parents and to cut short the lives of those who do not. I’ll finish with Proverbs 30:17: “The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures”.
If you fooled around on your housewife, I understand alimony. But if she just wants to get you to support her and her boyfriend, different story
I think marriage is a non starter at the moment for men in America, I'd feel safer with a business contract with implict expectations and failures would mean immediate dissolution
🤣😂 it sounds counterintuitive but what better way to keep both parties honest? Unless you can find a true ride or die
Hey at least you'll never have to worry about getting married, right virgin loser?
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.
Support aka SUB (under) PORTARE (to carry) aka parent carrying child to labor. The foundation for that implies support (inception towards death) generating off-spring (life). Notice that support becomes burden for off-spring...hence parent carrying child to labor becoming child laboring to carry parent.
It's "to pay" which corrupts ones mind (pay-ment) to give what is due for goods or services onto others, while ignoring the sustenance of self through one another.
One of the few things I'm find of since it provides incentive to have children.