Pass on genes, not bills,'' urges a recent magazine advertisement for long- term care insurance. We owe each other. Everybody knows that. Parents make sacrifices for their children, and children are expected to help their parents. Young must venerate the old, and the old must cherish the young.
Current generations have obligations to future generations as well to generations that came before.
That dirty word, generation Essayist Susan Allen Toth of St. Paul is an adjunct English professor at Macalester College. Wis. W e should give more to our children than labels. I'm suspicious of anything that reduces the intricate, puzzling and fascinating variety of life into a value abstraction.