Bonded Forever, or sometimes not?

What could be simpler and more real than the the love, the caring and the sharing...that a parent and child share?

Taking those first few steps, afraid to fall, yet knowing that someone is there....  ready to provide that 'oh so ready' helping hand. The sheer bliss of being a trusting young child.

Time passes, little children become bigger children and then even more so.

Then come the middle years, and by then, the parents have become old...older(?)
At which point it is their turn to require/demand that helping hand.

But this is the whole point of my note. Is that helping hand always available?
Or not?

Think about it, you would know best...