Questions on the Parent-Child relationship

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  1. children love their parents because the latter are the secondary principles of their being. So then do parents, in a like way, love their children because the latter are a sort of manifestation of their being?
  2. a person is no longer a child when he reaches the age of majority. But does this mean 21, or is there some other Catholic Church-specific meaning?
 
fakename said:
  1. children love their parents because the latter are the secondary principles of their being. So then do parents, in a like way, love their children because the latter are a sort of manifestation of their being?
  2. a person is no longer a child when he reaches the age of majority. But does this mean 21, or is there some other Catholic Church-specific meaning?
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A child listens to a parent whether their behavior or instructions are good or bad.this is because of OS.We lost the ability to make right decisions on our own.A child loves his parent because he(she)is the closest to him and its in our very natures to love.Parents don’t necessarily have to love their children.Parents give children up for adoption,kill their children,abuse theri children,ect.But most at least feel a responsibility for their children because they know that they are the reason their here.And your right good parents feel that they are a part of them and to harm them they harm themselves.So you see its free will more than anything else whether we choose to love them or not.
 
So if parents and children should love each other because one is the cause of the other and etc. why should adopted children love their adopted parents in the same way that they love their real parents?

Also, is parent-children love the defining characteristic of this relationship (such that an unloving father is not considered a father) or is it non-essential, such that a bad father is still a father?

And finally, how does one reconcile parent-child mutual love with the love of justice, etc.? If either of the two parties treats the other one badly, then what relationship status would they then hold -are they enemies now, friends still, or some other thing?
 
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