When you mentioned your father repeatedly saying, "It's payback time," I felt like hearing my own father. I think it's a generational trait - during their time they think that it is the responsibility of the younger generation to tend to their needs just because they are the older generation. Then they cease going to work, not realizing that life does not stop when their eldest graduates from college and lands a job.
As breadwinners, we know the importance of helping out. But it is difficult to not pop the question, "Until when?"
RE: Giving Back Should Be Out Of Gratitude | LOH #148