From today’s Sardonic Ex Curia posting:
Parents may not be consenting to their moral relation; but consenting or not, they are bound to a long train of burdensome duties towards those with whom they have never made a convention of any sort. Children are not consenting to their relation, but their relation, without their actual consent, binds them to its duties; or rather it implies their consent because the presumed consent of every rational creature is in unison with the predisposed order of things. – Edmund Burke
How about that “predisposed order of things”? A conservative bedrock.
Blithe Spirit 