The answer to the question “where do I come from” was central to traditional Chinese culture. In ancient China, parents were taken as God to their children because the question “where do I come from” was answered with the simple fact that children were born and raised by their parents. From this fact it was extrapolated that children not only belonged to their parents, but that parents were charged with deciding their children’s business, from the matters of marriage, to profession and more. Indeed, it was on the basis of the simple answer to the question “where do I come from?” that ancient Chinese culture constructed the system of “Xiaodao.” This chapter analyses the legacy of this system, and its collision, in the modern age, with Westerns forms of parent–child relationships. In particular, the chapter focuses on how modern Chinese culture reached the adoption of the notion, common in the Christian West, that children belong to God. This gradually occurred through a style of reasoning that was acceptable to the Chinese mindset: the fact that a child not only belongs to his or her parents, but also to his or her grandparents, and their parents too, leads to an infinite regress which reaches back to a creator of humanity. In other words, children not only belong to their parents, but also to the inheritance chain of humanity linked by its continued development. Participation in the human chain of being has mitigated the role that parents play in controlling their children’s future, for each link is granted equal divinity. The chapter looks further at how the new answer to the question of “where do I come from,” an answer which has broadened the patrilineal and matrilineal one of ancient Chinese culture, transformed not only family relations, but social relations in China, as it entered the modern age. Emperors and officials in ancient China often claimed they served as parents to the common people, and so they “owned” the people according to the traditional Chinese culture and could do whatever they wanted. However, in the model of modern relations between parents and children, everybody is equal, either between parents and children, or among officials and the common people.