Brewer's: Storks' Law

or Lex Ciconaria. A Roman law which obliged children to maintain their necessitous parents in old age, “in imitation of the stork.” Also called “Antipelargia.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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