My parents

A hypothetical situation for you, answers please.
You are a teenager at university, in a few years you will graduate with honours, you get a brilliant job with a brilliant salary, you meet your ideal girl, (if you are gay read no further), get married or become partners, have a family,(planned of course)......................
Fast Forward thirty years or so, your son, now married with a family, good salary, buying classy house with a mortgage, then catastrophy!
He is made redundant, no job, no money, grandchildren (yours) heading for the streets, he comes to you to help him and family out, what do you do? Say "Sod off, you're on your own" or help him out with a loan you are not likely to see returned..............
Answers in plain envelope containing 100 euro note please.

 

In such a situation would you inevitably turn to your parents, as opposed to the state or your friends? Even if you did turn to your parents, this is simply an appeal on their humanity, is it not? How does this indict the children in some way or other, how does it put them in anything other than a moral and emotional debt which I never denied they had?

By the way, not that I'm gay, but for me to have children would require some sort of fundamental shift in timespace. Anything less would not do.

 

Ah Roel, I don't think you read the question for which I asked for an answer, I'm asking what you would say as you are now the parent as well as the Grandfather.?

 

The fact is that any parent would be unselfish and would not ask or wait for something in return for their presentation.

Merlin: I would certainly offer help to my relative in any way that would not make him harm himself more (alcoholic, junkie). In example, if he had a need of money to feed his family, I would feed it instead of giving him money I would not hope to be returned in any way and letting him spend it any way his wrong mind would feel. (His mind has evidently been wrong so many times before, in order for him to have become a flash in the pan/loser).

 

I would say yes - My parents brought me up, made me who I am, devoted a big chunk of their lives to simply raising me... the least I can do is help them out if they need it.

I already do, though it tends to be small things (my shed needs re-roofing, do you mind helping?)