Oversimplify relationship Through Cloning between parent and child is lost...

Montague is right when he suggests that parents have obligations with respect to their children. They have the obligation to raise and nurture their children in such a way that they are able to enjoy meaningful lives both currently and as they mature towards their own adulthood. To say however, that these obligations are all that exists seems to oversimplify the relationship between parent and child. Intuitively at least we think that a child has done something wrong, or is at least ungrateful, when without justification, it strikes out against the well intention, good parent. We think there is something wrong when young teens are allowed to, by social systems, to leave homes were there is no abuse and where they have been cared and nurtured for over a decade by loving parents, and the parents are not allowed to even know where the child is. It is this intuition at the very least that leads me to think that Montague’s account is wrong. Surely Montague is not saying that he thinks it is appropriate for a ten year old child to decide that, despite the fact there home life has been better than average, they want to leave home and that we should accept and acknowledge this decision and commit resources to allowing it. Alternatively, perhaps under his conception of parental obligations, the parents would be forced, by the state, to continue to financially support their child even though the child had declined this support from within the home.