Adoption and 4th Commandment

[FinallyPeace]

I know someone who is adopted and doesn’t show a whole lot of respect towards their guardian. Would that be breaking the 4th commandment to honor your father and mother?

 

[1ke]

I know someone who is adopted and doesn’t show a whole lot of respect towards their guardian. Would that be breaking the 5th commandment to honor your father and mother?

In the Catholic numbering of the Ten Commandments, that is the 4th commandment.

And yes, adopted parents are parents and would require respect and obedience under the commandment to honor mother and father.

Parents, guardians, teachers, pastors, government officials, bosses, and others in authority over us are all the types of people the 4th commandment is talking about.

Go here and scroll to the section on the Ten Commandments— article 4, the fourth commandment— and read all of those links.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

 

[TheLittleLady]

The 4th Commandment applies to those put in legitimate authority, including adoptive parents.

 

[FinallyPeace]

Thanks for clearing this up.