Baroness Deech, one of Britain?s most influential family lawyers and chairwoman of the Bar Standards Board, said last week that we should be duty-bound to look after our parents in their old age. ?In return for all that grandparents do, should there not be an obligation to keep them, and to keep parents, and reciprocate the care that was given by them to children and grandchildren in their youth?? she said. She also pointed out that grandparents provided free childcare. What do you think of this. Should we be 'duty-bound' to look after our parents? Does this not ignore the fact that not all parents are paragons? Will Shannon Matthews feel like looking after Karen Matthews after the way she was treated? And what about those who have had abusive parents? Surely if you love your parents and feel able to look after them, then the very fact that it is a legal obligation and not a loving gesture takes something away from it? I can also see that the main burden will fall on the woman - no matter whose parents they are. My step-mother aged at least 10 years in that many months whilst she looked after my incontinent grandfather whilst his son (my father) did nothing or little to help. What do you think?