First and foremost, some people shirk their duty of financially supporting their old and helpless parents due to their own interests.

首先，有些人由于自己的利益逃避赡养他们年迈无助父母的责任。

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First, raising children is a duty of us. If our parents had had the similar thought, where would we have been now?

首先，养育孩子是我们的义务。如果我们的父母也这么想，那我们现在会在哪里？

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My first reason is that it is the duty of parents, not teachers, to prepare their children to deal with the practical affairs of life.

我的第一个理由是，帮助孩子对付生活中的实际问题是家长而不是老师的职责。

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They have a strong sense of national pride, think children should be taught to obey and that the first duty of a child is to make his or her parents proud.

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