The publication of Eva Feder Kittay's Love's Laborin 1999 was a significant event in the development of care ethics (CE). The moral insights stemming from Kittay's theorizing based on her own experience of caring for her severely retarded 30-years-old daughter, Sesha, are not only emotionally touching, but also morally inspiring. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we analyze the theories that have contributed to the emergence of Kittay's dependency critique, including Martha Fineman's (1995) model of mother/child dependency relation which illustrates what possible models of attitudes become formed among family members; Robert E. Goodin's (1985)vulnerability model which we apply in our discussion of the theory's moral foundations; Amartya Sen's (1992) capability approach which assesses the level of faimess in allocation of care; and finally Martha C.Nussbaum's (1999)seminal work Sex and social justice. Second, we examine the implications of the dependency critique, such as the impact of care's de-gendering, the moral grounds of CE, and feminist scholars' critical assessments of the dependency-oriented care. This study pays a special attention to the contrast between Nussbaum's concept of universalistic independence and Kittay's notion of connectionbased equality, and suggests in what ways, according to the dependency critique, social values should be adjusted. Finally, we conclude that CE, as a general moral theory, finds its moral grounds in the principle of vulnerability. Given the fact that dependency relations are inevitable human conditions, namely, that we all need to be cared for when sick or old, and that we must respond to the needs of others when they require our care, care should be viewed as an inseparable component of everyone's conception of moral goodness. Thus, care becomes the primary condition in the pursuit of one's happiness; and a just society should provide care to any one of its members in need. Last but not least, Kittay's dependency critique which strongly criticizes all legal, moral, and social values attached to the superiority of independence and individual's autonomy, should relieve the negative effects of the personal conflict that many care-providers, who often tend to put their (economic) independence at a great risk, tend to face when choosing care for others over their own independence.