[Jtsummers]

Because kids are the responsibility of their parents, and parents are not the responsibility of their kid (well, until those kids are adults themselves at least). Why would you expect a 5-year-old to take care of their adult parents? And why wouldn't you expect an adult parent to take care of their 5-year-old?

[bmitc]

If it wasn’t clear, that was meant hyperbolically. Sometimes things aren’t always clear in text, so I removed it since it isn’t even important at all to my actual question.