Traditionally, parents are respected and their wishes honored. Children usually live at home until they marry. It is not unusual for a wealthy family to live in its own compound, consisting of the main house, where the parents and unmarried children live, and smaller house built for the married ones. Elderly parents are never left to live alone, and would consider this as one of the most humiliating things that could happen. In fact to a Filipino, the ultimate curse is “to be alone.”