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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aging population may worry about replacing knees and encroaching memory loss, but emotional health is equally—and in some ways more—important. Good emotional health affects physical health ...

"Because of their long continued, persistent, undutiful and unfilial conduct" they had "acted less as children than as parasites and who have defied me." Benjamin's widow died in the sanitarium at age ...

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 ...

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 ...