0 If you give someone moral support, you encourage that person and show that you approve of what they are doing, rather than giving practical help.
In the case of moral support given from children to parents, showing affection and love may be the major demand of the older generation.
Other forms of support are two-way, such as moral support in difficult situations, shopping, helping with housework, minor household repairs, driving (giving lifts) and gardening.
Nowadays, it is true, authors whose partners are also academics tend to acknowledge moral support and intellectual dialogue.
More ambiguously he argues that they must also forge ' alliances across national boundaries ' to gain logistical, political, financial and moral support.
In certain ways, this paper is about personal and institutional patronage: the working out of a difficult theoretical impasse requires individual and collective moral support.
The rise of the temperance movement in the 1880s was hailed as a great moral support to the work of the mission.
Cultural aid from children to parents is strategic in the sense that, together with providing moral support, they take full responsibility for the mental health of their parents.
In terms of cultural aid, the children may be expected to give moral support to their parents and not to leave them alone and isolated in the home.
