Children’s Responsibility for Their Elderly Parents
Children’s Responsibility for Their Elderly Parents

Summary/Abstract: Due to physical disabilities and changes in the mental sphere, elderly people cannot always cope with a rapidly growing technology and progressive commercialization. The caring for their elderly parents belongs to the fundamental duties of adult children. One has to prepare for this task throughout the entire life. Including such ideas as care, solicitude and gratitude in the educational process and developing them is helpful in this regard. The first of these ideas has been deepened by Professor Tadeusz Kotarbiński in the analyses of the concept of ‘trustworthy protector’. Ethics of solicitude and gratitude is gaining more and more recognition among many contemporary thinkers. In the middle adulthood, when children take on the responsibility of caring for their elderly parents, these ideas will have an opportunity of a complete externalization and implementation.

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