Young people begin to exert their rights, and will not allow parents to choose their life partners without their consent.

Instances of girls choosing their own husbands have come to my knowledge, and they did not occur during leap-year.
But I sincerely hope that our Chinese youth will not go to the same lengths as the young people of America.
The manner in which a son treats his parents in the United States is diametrically opposed to our Chinese doctrine, handed down to us from time immemorial.

"Honor thy father and thy mother" is an injunction of Moses which all Christians profess to observe, but which, or so it appears to a Confucianist, all equally forget.

The Confucian creed lays it down as the essential duty of children that they shall not only honor and obey their fathers and their mothers, but that they are in duty bound to support them.

The reason is that as their parents brought them into the world, reared and educated them, the children should make them some return for their trouble and care.