It is an odd sort of fact that western sort of approaches have the parents being not very worthy of respect.--starting with the faith of the Greeks where the child of Chaos kills him and takes over the throne. Then his child kills him... etc. A whole series of children killing their father until you get to Zeus.

 This is so much different than Confucius where you find the root of all virtue is piety towards ones parents--emulating their ways and actually serving them in gratitude for all they did for him or her even much more before they can remember.

[One thing you see in Confucius is an important point-is that  baalei teshuva [people that have left the way of their parents in order to join the religious] are by definition wicked. And you can see this. This is the reason why the great yeshivas like Brisk do not accept baali teshuva-- after all, if they can abandon the path of their parents, they can not be stable decent human beings. [No matter how religious they imagine themselves.]