There are many responsibilities as a parent. Parenting does not stop when the child turns 18 years of age. However, many people believe that it does. There are many parents in the world who think that there children owe them something because they had to raise them all there lives. Well the answer to solve all the problems is that we as children never asked to be born. Our parents are what made each one of us. And for that we are not obligated to our parents. We do not owe our parents anything. If anything, our parents should make sure that we as children are having the best possible life that we could possibly have as children or adults.
To ask money from your child when your child does not have it to give. That in my opinion is wrong. Especially when there are things that have built up over time and those things need to either be paid or not but what ever the child chooses the best decision is going to be to make sure that there family gets everything that they need weather there family is ok or not that's for the child to decide and not the parent to decide for there child who has a family of there own.
Our parents are older and much wiser then the child is. And our parents have been around forever compared to there children. Therefore, each parent should know what he or she should do and they should already have everything in order for when the time comes they have something to fall back on. They should have everything lined up so that way when it is needed everything is going to be there.