> If you're raising children as servants to take care of you when you're old, then yes, self-interest is a good reason to keep them around. I suggest you read

> If you're raising children as servants to take care of you when you're old, then yes, self-interest is a good reason to keep them around. I suggest you read GP a bit closer and/or work on when and how to apply your sarcasm :-) For starters you conveniently leave out both religious as well as purely selfish evolutionary motives.