Confucius’s follower Mencius declared that the worst of unfilial acts was a failure to have descendants (Mencius 4A.26). In later centuries this emphasis on the necessity of sons led many to be ...

accusing someone of being unfilial or disloyal is considered particularly sharp criticism. Filial piety and fraternal duty are generally family ethics while loyalty and good faith are political ...

Most people believe that it is “unfilial” to send their elderly family members to a nursing home, or that it is a form of abandonment. Some believe it denies elderly people the ability to experience ...

Afterward, my mom would vent to me on the car ride to the farmer’s market. “She called me unfilial and disrespectful. Can you ...

I intended to visit, but before I could, my aunt called. Afterward, she and her sisters sent messages and called, accusing me of being unfilial, saying that without my father, I wouldn’t be here, and ...

Indeed, the ‘outpouring of Irish blood’ on the various fighting fronts of the First World War was, the Irish independent had it, ‘as expiation for the acts of unfilial ingrates who have ...

The story of a family that is not harmonious: Amang or father (Cok Simbara) and his three unfilial children. Out of love for her children, Amang uses an unusual way to change their lives forever.

This makes Bong-wan erupt, destroying his home and assaulting Bong-wan in kind for abandoning him all those years ago and being unfilial. Bong-wan blames Bo-geol’s abandonment for disrupting his ...

The pressures of bihun aren't going anywhere, anytime soon. The saying: "not getting married and producing children is unfilial" is so culturally ingrained, that not having children is still one ...