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To fully understand the concept of requiring adult children to care for their parents requires an understanding of the beginnings of filial responsibility laws and their historical ebb and flow in the United States. The legal duties underlying the relationship between parents and minor children have been quite settled for some time. However, the reciprocal legal duties, known as filial responsibility laws, of the relationship between adult children and their parents are far from settled. They have troubled theologians, philosophers, and legislators for most of the world's recorded history....