Bhagavad-gita 1.41

An increase of unwanted population certainly causes hellish life both for the family and for those who destroy the family tradition. The ancestors of such corrupt families fall down, because the performances for offering them food and water are entirely stopped. By the evil deeds of those who destroy the family tradition and thus give rise to unwanted children, all kinds of community projects and family welfare activities are devastated.

Traditionally the family unit has been responsible for socialization, education, and social welfare, including the maintenance of the elderly. Parents would invest their time, energy, and income in their children, and when they advanced in age their children would return the favour and take care of them.

Today children are routinely abandoned by one or both parents, and parents are encouraged to store away some of their income during their productive years in order to “not be a burden on their children” in the future. Young people are encouraged to seek self-actualization through an independent lifestyle of consumption along with a partner. Both elderly parents and children are seen as a hindrance to this pursuit of self-actualization through consumption, and thus fertility rates are at an all time low in Western countries, with negative population growth in many populations.

Elderly people are left to fend for themselves, abandoned by their children and relegated to old folks homes where they live in isolation from the family. In this way the family as the basic structural unit of human society has become replaced with the individual consumer. This is the result of the destruction of the family tradition.

Arjuna demonstrates through his concerns that aside from the legality of the succession, he is more the indicated person to sit on the throne than Duryodhana.