Why should you always be loyal to your family if it isn't reciprocated? Why continuously suffer from unrequited loyalty? This is quite an idealistic and generalising claim and disregards how varied the structure of 'family' is today. For many, those closest and most present in their lives are their friends and others that aren't blood relatives but that have become a part of a different type of family structure. One shouldn't always have to be loyal to their family if they have been repeatedly wronged, if it harms them and makes them unhappy. Blood shouldn't forever tie you to this fate if the family dynamic is harmful and not adapted to being loyal to this extent.

**Cultures that have practice familial piety focus a great deal on maintaining loyalty to relatives no matter what.** - [Familial piety](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00100/full) is at the core of [Confucian ethics](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-839X.00031). Familial piety originally began as [ancestor worship](https://www.jstor.org/stable/605890) to protect dynasties and thus society at large. [But traditional Chinese and Japanese](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjz6MPGsL7zAhVQmmoFHUisAgwQFnoECBAQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpressto.amu.edu.pl%2Findex.php%2Feip%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F19980%2F19641%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DThe%2520%25E2%2580%259Cfilial%2520piety%25E2%2580%259D%2520advocated%2520by%2Cand%2520people%2520outside%2520the%2520family.&usg=AOvVaw19nIEPJLgksmq_oEhnZajg) cultures dictate a loyalty between children and parents, which includes duty into old age and unconditional support. - [Some research](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00100/full) has found that familial piety "supports warmth, love, harmony, and close family ties, and thus has a beneficial effect on personal growth and interpersonal relationships." - [Other research](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00100/full) has "identified filial attitudes that correlated with traditional parental attitudes such as control, protection, harshness, and neglect, as well as inhibition of self-expression, independence, and creativity."