an obligation to the family business???

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my dad owned his own little grocery store when i was born. he always jammed it into my little head that it would be my store when i grew up. being so young, i didnt think much of it. as i got older, i realized that i didnt want any part of that store. when i was about 15, we moved into the apartment on top of it and all of a sudden, i was thrown into the family busniess. i was spending all of my free time after school running the cash register while my dad went upstairs to relax for the rest of the day. rrr. according to him, he was letting me get the feel of what it was like to run a business. as much as i told him that i didnt need the experience because i wasnt going to take over the store, he wouldnt accept it. he was adament that it WAS going to be taken over by me. well, to make a very long story short, my dad sold the business when i was 19 becuase me and my brothers didnt want to take over. it is almost 9 years later, and he STILL tries to make all of us feel guilty for not following in his footsteps. if you owned your own family business, would you make your children feel obligated to take over or even spend all of their free time devoted to it, so that they can learn all of the details on how to run it? i resent that my dad still gives us all the guilt trips, but the only one it is effecting is my youngest brother. he is only 19, but wants to make my dad happy. he has taken busniness classes and accounting classes so that he can help my dad get a store up and running again. my dad had to give up the store becuase he was really bad with his finances and couldnt manage his money. i am so worried that my naive little brother is going to get screwed by my dads spending ways.