The Traditional Sense Of Family

It is a common theme throughout history that children “owe” it to their parents to do right by them by any means necessary in return for the parents years of hard work, personal sacrifices, and parental obligations to the child; whether that be through personal sacrifices or simply lending a helping hand. Modern philosophy attempts to disregard the ties of family entirely in order to prove that children do not voluntarily ask for sacrifices of their parents, or even the more dramatic claim – “life.” More conservative philosophers such as Christina Hoff Summers defends the moral duties of the more traditional sense of family and the personal morality involved in the family unit. The ideas presented on the tradition that family duties are stronger bonds than those of friends could potentially affect the overall quality of life in adults. In this paper I am going to argue that the traditional sense of family and its duties are stronger than the duties demanded of friendship.
Philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers defines personal morality as measured by “how well we behave within family relationships” and that each person lives their life as a “son or daughter to this mother and that father, as brother or sister to this sister or that brother, as father or mother, grandfather or granddaughter to this boy or that girl or that man or woman.” This idea that each person is individually defined as a family member provides

Others claim that children don’t have any duties to their parents because of the idea that the child did not voluntarily assume the role in the family. Some philosophers claim that children should have the right to leave the family even if they are still at an age that requires parental