But happen
it as it will [= ‘whatever the details of how this is handled in individual
families’], I have shown that •there is no reason why parental
power should be thought ever to extend to life and death
over the children any more than over anyone else; and that
there is no basis on which to claim that parental power
should keep the adult offspring in subjection to the will of his
parents, though his having received life and upbringing from
his parents obliges him to give respect, honour, gratitude,
assistance and support, all his life, to both father and mother.