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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Are adult children morally obligated to care for ailing parents?
gpt
Do you have a general moral theory within which you want an answer to this question?

Part of this is the extent to which you think familial status can itself cause a moral obligation.

edit--just adding a little elaboration.

Myself, it seems very unlikely that we can actually argue the "parentage" can be the cause of the obligation to take care of one particular ailing person.  There certainly seem to be lots of things involved in parenting that make potential reciprocity morally right; but only in virtue of the nature of the parenting.

For instance, its plausible that you owe something to a parent who ensured you had access to great education and thus professional success.  it seems extremely plausible to me that the same obligation would not attach to a parent who abandoned you at age 2 and never spoke to you for twenty years.

By extension, you would have to be arguing that there is some moral obligation arising from the mere genetic similarity.  This seems very strange.