"A man must himself starve before he would see his parents starve."

Care for parents
We should care for our parents as they cared for us - when we were vulnerable and unable to care for ourselves, they placed their personal desires aside and went to great lengths to ensure our safety and prosperity. Their personal sacrifice to forgo their wants and needs in the best interest of their children should be an example we, as their children, should attempt to emulate closely. We should care for our parents because they taught us the value of family, decency and honor, and express great concern for our parents is a demonstration that their efforts were not wasted. We should care our parents just not to repay the debt we owe them but to set a worth example for our children.

We have a moral responsibility to care our parents. We should never desert them as they can no longer be of benefit to us. Getting away from our responsibility is tantamount to theft - the theft of love, concern, energy and devotion which they had. In childhood we accepted and enjoyed these eagerly as splendid gifts. The parent-child relationship is a mutually unspoken pact, an always be there joy and comfort for the other person. A reprehensible individual only can deny care for his/her parents. In terms of depth and personal integrity we altogether are merely empty vessels. Selfish needs and me first attitudes of children are emotional crush to the aging and ailing parents. They should better stay away from parents for heaven’s sake, as their lack of concern serve only to make the elderly parents disappointed at their efforts. Such worthless people should understand that it is their final gift to parents. It is their last chance to make the parents happy by letting them feel that their efforts and lives were not wasted as they have created individuals who sense divinity through love and responsibility. Most people think of "honoring father and mother" only in terms of a young child or teenager being obedient to their parents.
Show your appreciation! Financial support is not the only way to honor our loved ones. (It is definitely a major factor as the aging process brings with it a lot of physical and physiological ailments that calls in unaffordable medical expenses .) We witness this truth in raising children. A parent can buy every toy his child desires but still have no influence over the child. The best things in life are those things which money cannot buy. A child needs us! A parent needs us! How often do we hear, “no one appreciates me’ Employees, wives, husbands, children—and even parents are left with an empty, lonely feeling when no sign of appreciation is shown? A few kind words, thoughtful phone calls or letters, and various gifts of remembrances will help show that we care them.
Our father, through hours of labor, helped provide our needs, Our mother, through sleepless nights when we were sick, had time to help us through troublesome periods. Is it true that now we have become “too busy” with the mundane things of life to make a few small sacrifices for those who gave so much to help us become what we are? The word “honor” inherently describes something of value, and we honor those whom we esteem highly.
Perhaps we have all heard the story of the father, who along with his young son was driving his aged father to admit him into the nursing home. As he topped the hill the nursing home came into view, and the father remarked “what a nice place it is”!. The young lad asked, “ls that where l will be taking you some day?” The father was dumb-struck. He had never thought of himself in that role. He turned the car around at the next convenient place and took his father back home.
Taking care of an aged parent in both monetary and emotional sense is simply repaying the love and terms they gave us in our time of need, with love and terms in their time of need. The honor of loving parents to whom we have to pay the first and greatest and oldest of debts, considering that all which a man has belongs to those who gave him birth and brought him up. He must do all that he can to minister to them; first, in his property; secondly, in his person; and thirdly, in his soul; by paying the debts due to them for their care and travail which they bestowed upon him in the days of his infancy, and which he is now able to pay back, when they are old and in the extremity of their need.