It’s hard to respect parents who lay around and won’t work, who beat them, who beat the mom, who run around, who get drunk, who get evicted, who us meth......this is what I think the corollary is, the parents need to act right so the kids will consider them honorable.
You completely nailed it in my book, yldstrk. I’ve known adults whose parents beat them, sexually abused them etc... Love them? No. Respect the position of parents? yes. Just my opinion but love/respect is earned by both parents and children. A person can “admire” his playmate’s parents for being good while still not accepting the actions of his own.