The problem is what happens as they move along in their careers and confront family obligations that they are still, rightly or wrongly, expected to handle to a large degree.
"Dear Life" also acknowledges "Dear death", as the poems confront the contractual obligation of every individual to "satisfy / the quota".
By the time you become an elder, you confront your greatest obligation -- to pass your knowledge on to the next generation -- a true mentor, someone to guide you in a fruitful direction that leads to well-being-in-the world.
But it is hard to see us reducing health care inflation seriously unless people and their families are willing to do what Clendinen is doing — confront death and their obligations to the living.
In his July 15 column, "Death and Budgets," David Brooks assures us that "we are never coercively going to give up on the old and ailing," but then argues that "it is hard to see us reducing health care inflation seriously unless people and their families are willing to... confront death and their obligations to the living".
The following year Roosevelt added this striking testimonial: "Taking your life as a whole, I think you now occupy the position of being the most respected, and venerated, and useful citizen of our country". In the present emergency it behooves every American citizen to do his duty, and to uphold the hands of the President and the Legislative department in the solemn obligations that confront us.
That interplay between state and federal law makes the Detroit case an important precedent as more and more cities and counties confront their underfunded retirement obligations, said Peter Henning, a constitutional law professor at Wayne State University law school in Detroit.
The demands of IHR 2005 surveillance obligations will confront many countries, particularly developing countries, with resource challenges.
As a scientist, what is my ethical obligation to confront pseudoscience and antiscience attitudes?
While many come back to music after studying as a child, primed to play but now free of the parentally imposed obligation, others confront it cold.
Besides determining never to eat there again and hoping every other pizza maker is more fastidious, did I have an obligation to confront him about his toppings?
