Guess it all depends on the elderly parents. If someone has been mentally abused by a parent, constantly disowned as family all their adult life because they didn’t bend to the whim of the parent, and the parent is an alcoholic, do you think the children have to take care of the elderly parent they haven’t spoken to thirty or so years later?
You have a good point, but I would like to think that forgiveness and unconditional love makes one a better person.