Respect for Parents
Honoring and caring for parents is a sacred duty. Those who neglect their parents violate fundamental human bonds.
Honoring and caring for parents is a sacred duty. Those who neglect their parents violate fundamental human bonds.
Repay your mother for all her care. She carried you in her womb; she nursed you; she raised you.
Family Ethics
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- What ancient Egypt says about growing old
The Instructions of Any make the duty concrete and one-directional — you repay the specific labour a mother spent carrying, feeding and raising you. Egyptian old age was insured by children, not by institutions.