Friendship and Family

In the article of Jane Child, I do not agree with the way she argues her point nor the point itself. The idea of familial obligation cannot be the same as friendship simply because they reside in two categories. Biologically you have a duty to support your line of genetics and the only way that can be done if you take and you give back. If your parents have sacrificed so much for you and provided you with so much, then it isn't something like a friend doing a friend a favor, its goes beyond that. The act of giving birth and bring life onto this world is a gift and for every gift you must treat the giver with respect and graciousness and reciprocate, for without that, you are rude. The rudeness is not even the worse part, it is just cold to not reciprocate after a favor to a friend or family. I know if I did my friend a favor and he didn't acknowledge it in the slightest I would not do it again, that is being used.  Any relationship is built of transaction, and on occasion there will be a free giving or a favor performed, but unless you are giving to the needy, the respect is shown by reciprocation. Without the reciprocation, and in this case without committing familial duties, it is hard to see any sort of respect coming from the other party, and even if one does not agree with familial responsibility, one always has to have respect.