It shocked me to discover that there are more verses about caring for aging parents than caring for children.

Both of guys, Jeff and Jeremy here.

Fun question today.

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This one looks like a conversation from Jeremy and one of his friends.

I think it's a great conversation. And it's if you have multiple siblings, whose responsibility is it to care for your parents? Or even if you don't, I think this conversation or the question in general is how do you work with your siblings, big or small family to care for your parents when they get to that stage of the game? Um, that's a tough question, right? You know, people are probably living in different

parts of the nation, different jobs, different resources. How do you, how would you just practically

facilitate that question, Jeremy? Yeah. So somebody asked me this. They were considering

moving to another city in order to care for their aging parents. And my first question was, do you have siblings?

And they're like, yes. And I said, where are you out in the order? And he said, I'm third. And he said, where is your, your older two siblings? And they said, they both live in the same city as my parents. And then he sort of stopped me and said, why are you asking me those questions? like no one's ever asked me that before and And I said, well, I'm trying to figure out,

like you're asking me a really good question, which is, am I responsible to leave my job,

leave my city, and go care for my aging parents in another city? And my first, my first instinct, when you asked me that, was to figure out if you're the first city. And my first instinct when you asked me that was to figure out if you're

the firstborn and if your other siblings are stepping up into those roles, particularly the older

siblings. And again, this surprised him, but we had a really good conversation around it. And I think

just made me realize, oh, I don't think this is

like native to most people's thinking about aging parents. Uh, and in classic cultures,

this is very normal. They're one of the reasons why the oldest child would often be given a

double inheritance was because it was their responsibility to care for the children,

the parents when they were getting older. Yeah, well, I think it's all... It was actually to have the resources to use it. That's right. And I think it's... I think certainly every single child has responsibility to figure out how they can support their parents and their aging. This is actually, man, in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, it shocked me to discover that there are more verses about caring for aging parents than

caring for children. So we talk a lot about this topic in Five Minute Fatherhood, because

for a lot of you guys, this is coming, and you don't realize that you're responsible at some

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