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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When someone becomes a parent, do they become their child’s employee?  They have to keep track of their appointments, pay their bills, Feed them, dress them.......

It is part of the aging process.  First parents take care of you.  You launch,  you and they age.  They need help and the children take care of their parents.

You can obviously hire out the more mundane stuff, but thinking of it as being an employee struck me as odd.

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You left out something. This is the type of BS fed to women to make women do everything. You did not chose to be born and you are not born to be someone's servant later on. You chose to have children or to at least take the risks that can create them. That is different.

A responsible adult plans for their retirement. Period. You plan for your care and hope your loved ones support you and visit and check on things. Only a self absorbed nut expects people to clean up or their financial messes and their cluttered homes and fight with them to get the care they need. It's usually the people who did the minimum for their own parents who have no clue and expect others to drop everything to care for them. I find people who actually did the work do not want to ever put their own children through what they went through and they move to places where they can get the care they need so they can simply enjoy their children and not do in their physical and mental health.[/quote]

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