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> their children should be there at the end of life helping, showing love, and thanking mom and dad for all they've done?". Speaking to the possible point that
by WarOnPrivacy 4y ago
> their children should be there at the end of life helping, showing love, and thanking mom and dad for all they've done?".
Speaking to the possible point that kids 'owe' their parents for their upbringing: As a father of 5, I strongly disagree.
Fatherhood is, by necessity and actuality, service. Children don't ask to be born; I believe creating them into a position of debt is a poor rendering of that service.
- logicalmonster 4y agoThere is never any forced obligation. The point is that every parent should treat their children well enough that they love and honor their parents so much that they want to do all they can to help when the parents need help. Even the worst psychopath parent has a bit of incentive to treat their children well if they knew that this was the difference between having some comfort in their old age or being forgotten in some dreadful government facility being half taken care of by some stranger who doesn't give a fuck if they lie in a pool of their feces for hours.