子こは三さん界がいの首くび枷かせ

expression

a child is an everlasting responsibility

Proverb meaning that parents are bound by love and duty to their children for life, like a yoke around the neck that cannot be removed.

• 子こは三さん界がいの首くび枷かせというが、親おやになるとその重おもみがよくわかる。

  They say a child is an everlasting responsibility, and once you become a parent you really understand the weight of it.