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.
Burke reflects on the duties of children towards their parents, suggesting that their relationship implies consent to these duties.
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