Quite correct. To make this a family responsibility is to end up with an unjustly heterogeneous result because families are heterogeneous. For anything approach

Quite correct. To make this a family responsibility is to end up with an unjustly heterogeneous result because families are heterogeneous. For anything approaching fairness, it needs to be a societal responsibility. Social security was created in the era of the ostensibly closely-knit, God-fearing America that people imagine was the ideal of the past. It was created because the people then observed that even with the closing at families and all of that reliance on God, the elderly died poor and ugly deaths.