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implies parentage and the reciprocal duties of parent and children. These may be considered under two heads: (A) the reciprocal duty of support; (B) the parental power and its consequences.

A father must support his children, i.e. he must supply them with necessary food, clothing, shelter, medicine, and elementary instruction. The duty extends to emancipated children (i.e. to such as have reached or are deemed to have reached full age), if they have not sufficient means for their ovm support; and it includes illegitimate as well as legitimate children or further descendants. The obligation is personal and ends with the father's death. The father does not escape liability