People are seen to abandon their very parents and their uterine brothers when these cease to love them. What need be said then of relatives of other grades.
गौरवेण परित्यक्तं निःस्नेहं परिवर्जयेत्। सोदर्यं भ्रातरमपि किमुतान्यं पृथग्जनम्॥