Does this mean our literal parents or could it mean something else? If you do read this on the literal level, how do we honor parents who are abusive or have drug problems? Should we honor parents who are abusive or have drug problems?

You can choose to do what you want to do, Respect them if you want to, don't if you don't. This goes for both, literal parents, as well as the "Something else"

Personally, I feel literal parents deserve a lot of respect. No matter how many faults they might have. You can always try to help them get out of their problems if you try, and if you want to.

Parents with "problems" deserve even more respect, because their children have to face lots of trouble during younger years, which means they grow up ready to take on the challanges of life. It's your parents who give you birth and in most cases prepair you for rest of your life....

To honor does not mean to be obediant, nor does it mean we have to like them. To honor them means to respect them because otherwise we wouldn't exist. God gives us honor, even if we don't deserve it, and likewise, we give our parents honor, even if they don't deserve it.

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I am the one, O Lord, who brought You there,
I am the heavy cross You had to bear,
I am the rope that bound You to the tree,
The whip, the nail, the hammer, and the spear,
The blood-stained crown of thorns You had to wear:
It was my sin, alas, it was for me. -Jacob Revius

I do take that literal...the other comandments are literal why not that one. I also respect all my elders even the nasty ones. Parents who are abusive we don't have to like but we owe our exsistence to them and we are to honor them. We honor them by maintaining a quiet tongue and not speaking bad about them to others, we do what we've been asked in what is asked by them unless it's against God then and only then do we have the right to disobey, It's so much harder to obey an abusive parent but trust me it can be done.

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Fromthe heart