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No, it's an incredibly selfish reason to have children.

Certainly people have children for a variety of reasons, but if a big one is "who else will take care of me when I get old?", that's incredibly selfish, and not healthy at all. Loving and cherishing your children regardless doesn't change that.

I love how you've somehow twisted the person upthread's words into the idea that they don't care about humanity. This entire subthread is bizarre.




I agree with you.

I respect my father more for telling me he actively doesn't place care expectations on me in his old age. "I made you, you are not responsible for me but I am responsible for you".

Does that mean I won't care for him? Of course not, but it's good to know I haven't come into existence just for that.




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