However much we might love or appreciate our children, our parents, our families, our spouses or lovers or partners, we remain with them, often, from a certain measure of obligation, be it sexual, legal or moral.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge approved of the idea of a national holiday recognizing fathers as a way to "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations".
Numerous empirical studies have employed Beck and Azjen's (1991) concept and measure of "moral obligation" (akin to "responsibility judgment") and found strong negative relations between students' moral obligation and academic dishonesty (e.g., Beck & Ajzen, 1991; Harding, Carpenter, Finelli, & Passow, 2004; Stephens, Young, & Calabrese, 2007).
The measure of moral obligation proved to be a no-significant predictor of intention.
We constructed a global measure of filial obligation (sum of the 11 items, range 0 44) and three subdomain measures: financial support (sum of three items, range 0 12), physical support (five items, 0 20), and emotional support (three items, 0 12).
The belief in and practice of voodoo economics, extraordinary reliance on the printing press, and the intentional use of deceptive measures of our nation's fiscal obligations is, at its root, childish, selfish, and self-serving behavior by people who don't deserve the title of "adult".
Measures of perceived behavioural control and moral obligation components were included into the model.
Of obligations, by far the solemnest.
This definition employs the notion of obligations.
Liberty-rights are absences of obligations.
According to most defenders of special obligations, such obligations are prima facie obligations, i.e., they are obligations with a certain weight that can be counterbalanced by the weight of other special obligations or of other types of obligations.
