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When adult children feel overwhelmed by filial duty expectations

My parents expect me to take care of them financially and emotionally now that I'm successful, but I can barely manage my own life and I feel guilty for resenting it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of inherited obligation conflicts with individual capacity and autonomy.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian role identity?”

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