Each parent, for example, is commonly thought to have such special obligations to his/her child, obligations not shared by anyone else.
Marr pointed out that Tsiolkas often writes about children's obligation to their parents, an underexplored subject in fiction.
Confucian ethics dictate that sons and daughters must produce children — an obligation that has only been exacerbated by the one-child policy.
At the same time, however, parents who believe in children's obligation for parents are likely to show some leverage of their psychological state when compared to parents with less traditional attitudes.
Under federal law, a person who willfully does not pay a child support obligation of more than $10,000 for a child living in another state may be fined $250,000 and imprisoned up to two years.
Kentucky has statewide child support guidelines that the courts follow in calculating a parent's child support obligation.
But Judge Robert H. Moore III of Howard County District Court refused to end Mr. Wise's child support obligation.
"Mandatory reporting should go hand-in-hand with mandatory training of those professionals who have a child safeguarding obligation," said Mary Wandia, the FGM programme manager at Equality Now.
It's time for Strawberry to focus on everything that really matters, all of which has nothing to do with baseball: his addictions, his life, his children, his obligations.
Children's obligations to parents, by contrast, are grounded in gratitude, which is appropriate in relation to the benefits conferred, and so are not binding if parents have not fulfilled their duties to their children.
