It seemed to officials here to be a shocking abandonment of filial responsibility in a culture whose family bonds and obligations remain strong.

She also reminds him of his filial responsibilities.

It is outside of enough that he feels so little for his filial responsibilities that he will allow his mother to be dunned for a few paltry pounds.

She is interested not in divorce or infidelity, but in marriage - not very much in isolation, estrangement, alienation and other fashionable concerns, but in courtship, child raising and filial responsibility.

And some are fulfilling Korean traditions of filial responsibility, taking care of elderly parents back home.

"Insofar as the strokes of the cane are concerned, since the defendant was motivated by his filial responsibility to his daughter, I will suspend all but one, on one condition."

On the other hand, as his own parents and in-laws grow older, his filial responsibility will probably loom larger.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a time when families get together, though, like many filial responsibilities in China these days, people in the cities find it increasingly difficult to maintain.

The experience of becoming an adult child taking filial responsibility for an elderly parent or another aged relative, has been documented in American literature (Blenkner, 1965).

"He has some filial responsibility."