About 5 parents are killed in the US a week. Of course, this isn't a HUGE danger, I'm just saying that it's a risk to having children. (This isn't counting thi

About 5 parents are killed in the US a week. Of course, this isn't a HUGE danger, I'm just saying that it's a risk to having children. (This isn't counting things like mothers dying from childbirth, which still also happens.) My point wasn't that we should expect it to happen, but rather, neurotically making sure a child never could (or attempting to) rather than just having a child, raising it, and hoping for the best is bad parenting. As a secondary point: it's only humans that don't expect to be regularly murdered by their children; in other species, such an act is a routine occurrence. There's no particular reason to think that we're a super-special species in the grand scheme of things, and it's entirely possible that doing something like siring an artificial species better than us would end in our deaths. That doesn't, by default, make it not worth doing.