The Floor
Should adult children be expected to support their parents financially?
Half the world assumes yes and the other half assumes no, and both are surprised.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that obligation follows from what was actually given.
Closes at 1,500 answers
1,192 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- In much of the world it is a legal duty alreadyExpected
- A duty owed regardless of how you were raised is not a dutyNot expected
- Pension coverage decides this more than principle does
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
Counting closes as soon as 1,500 people have answered.
What people said · 4
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Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Sun-woo P.@sunwoo_p· 4 Sept
The generation that paid for you did it without calling it a loan. Refusing the same is a choice, not a principle.
Freya B.@freya_b· 6 Sept· reply
That is exactly the loan you say it was not. If it cannot be declined, it was never a gift.
Freya B.@freya_b· 5 Sept
An expectation that cannot be declined is a debt nobody agreed to. Help freely given is a different thing entirely.
Ade O.@ade_o· 7 Sept· reply
Help freely given still needs somebody willing to expect it, or it is never given at all.
