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    Parents and children cannot be true friends. — Carmelics
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    Parents and children cannot be true friends.

    Virtue Ethics
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    • 1.True friendship requires equality among the parties involved.
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    • 2.The inequality between parents and their children can never be fully overcome, regardless of the child's contributions to the parent.
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    • 1.Aristotle himself recognized that friendships of unequal parties (e.g., benefactor/beneficiary) can be genuine when adjusted by proportional reciprocity.
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    • 2.Parent-child relationships exhibit proportional reciprocity: children return care, loyalty, and filial devotion scaled to their capacity and developmental stage.
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    • 3.If proportional reciprocity suffices for friendship between unequals, strict equality is not a necessary condition for true friendship.
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    • 1.As children reach adulthood, the power differential characteristic of early parent-child relations substantially diminishes, approaching parity.
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    • 2.If a relationship that begins unequal can evolve into one of near-equality, the claim that inequality 'can never be fully overcome' is empirically and philosophically unsupported.
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    • 3.Philosophers like Cicero in De Amicitia ground friendship in shared history and mutual virtue, both of which adult parent-child bonds can fully satisfy.
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    Philosophers have often treated equality of some kind as a prerequisite of friendship (see SEP entry on friendship). In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle distinguished among three kinds of friendship: friendships of pleasure, of utility, and of virtue. The last, the highest or truest form, required similarity of character. Philosophers since Aristotle have rejected some of his prerequisites for friendship, such as equality of social or economic status, but they have shared his view that friend
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