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What does unfilial mean?

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  1. Not befitting or proper for a son.
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According to the tenets of traditional society, the worst kind of unfilial behaviour is failing to continue the family line.
For example, there are three types of unfilial conduct, the worst of which is to have no children.
Parents also begged the girls not to reveal the parents' involvement in the indenture to the police, and accused the girls of being unfilial if they did.
If he is remembered at all, it is as the domestic monster in the unfilial literary classic, Father and Son.
That was unfilial conduct, Mencius said, but compared to not getting married at all, and having no offspring, that was not important.
Either is possible, because the disheartening news about unfilial children still alerts me to the possibility of the son turning his back on his mother.

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