Definition of "filial duty" []

• Duty of a child to its parents (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so important, to raise his hand as if to strike him."
• "Though I do not wish in these pages to go back to the origin of all the Trollopes, I must say a few words of my mother, ” partly because filial duty will not allow me to be silent as to a parent who made for herself a considerable name in the literature of her day, and partly because there were circumstances in her career well worthy of notice."