Ideal Son/Daughter
An excellent story by Sudha Murthy garu in one of her books "the mother i never knew" gives good example for this. A son (Venkatesh) gets to know his father's (JMR) hidden past who abandoned his first wife (Bhagirathi) and child(Shankar). Venkatesh and Shankar both look alike, just like twins and his quest began with this. He explores and searches for his stepmother and gets to know her complete life story. Moved by all the difficulties she faced till then he wished to help her with an amount of 50 lakhs that can be used for buying a house, her treatment, her grand daughter marriage. Actually he knew that it is not a help being offered but his father's debt being cleared. But he couldn't, as his wife Shanta doesn't value his ideology. But he gets help from his daughter Gauri. She concluded her father saying that you wished to payback the debt of your father and I wished to payback the debt of my father. Venkatesh was ideal son for his father, and Gauri was id