When you express it this way you come across sounding like an ungrateful little jerk.
I pay $500 every month for my father healthcare, even though I haven't seen him in over 10 years now. This is for the person that I clearly remember beating me as a child. So lets not start about being ungrateful, you know nothing about my life.
Your supposition probably says more about yourself than me.
But thanks for the ad hominem.
Would you mind explaining:
1. Do you have to pay this? (By law, in some countries you have)
2. Do you pay voluntarily?
So no and yes.
The problem is there's far too many entitled people who haven't endured hardship, who have received nothing but support, and describe their situation exactly as you have, that insist they owe your parents nothing.
I was trying to convey how your comment sounded, not who you are.
In many countries, the parents are legally obligated to provide those things until the child comes of age.
You have no information about the parents or the child to make any reasonable assertion on whether or not someone should show gratitude. For example, the parents could have provided an abusive home, and scraps of food.