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492 WORK AND OCCUPATIONS piety) and how such a value has served over the centuries as the connecting fiber between generations, it was clear that the working daughter's con- tributions to the parents'family are explained by the obligation of filial piety, and the accent is on "filial" rather than the family. In this sense, the concept of centripetal is not accurate to describe the daughter's sense of obligations. Financial obligation to help with a sibling's education is, in this sense, an obligation to the parents, to assume and lighten the burden of the parents. Helping with a sibling's educational expenses is but one form of expression of filial piety, even though the recipient of such benefit is a younger sibling. For this reason, it is easy to understand why the daughter, even after contributing more than 50% of the total family budget, has no real power over major decisions in the family. To have that power negates the whole concept of filial obligation. The working daughters must repay their debts for their birth- rights, not purchase their share of the family power. -William T. Liu University of Illinois at Chicago Mary Jean Bowman, Educational Choice and Labor Markets