title: Ethical dimensions of intergenerational reciprocity: implications for practice.
abstract: This paper reviews the moral and ethical context of family relationships and caregiver stress, with an emphasis on the implications for professional interventions. Three views of filial responsibility are presented: parental reverence, a debt of gratitude, and caregiving as an expression of friendship and love. Case studies are presented to illustrate how an exploration of ethically defensible limits to caregiving might proceed.
authors.affiliation: Health Care Program, University of Michigan-Flint 48502.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Selig
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tomlinson
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hickey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003376:Counseling; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D004989:Ethics; D005190:Family; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009014:Morals; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy