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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no guarantees. I am one of two. My sister lives in the same city as my mom and my mom has always expected that my sister would be the one to help care for her in old age given the proximity. My sister is in her 40s and is dying from a rare and aggressive form of cancer. I am expecting my first child (in my 40s as well) within the week. I don't know if my sister will even be able to meet this child given how sick she is at the moment. So, I now will be raising a small child and caring for my mother from afar. Would I ever have guessed this scenario possible even 18 months ago? Nope. But, I will deal with it as it comes. Nothing else I can do.[/quote]

But how would it have been better for either you or your parents to have had only one child? If that one were your sister, she would die young and your mom would have noone left. Even if you were the only one, you would still have spent 40+ years of your life without your sister. Would you have preferred that? [/quote]

Don't know where you are going with this one, troll. All I was stating is that having two kids doesn't mean that there will be two kids to take care of parents in old age - which was the point the OP was trying to make. Nice try to stir crap up!!![/quote]

I apologize for not appreciating the depth of the truism that nothing is 100% guaranteed. And, no OP's point was [b]not[/b] that having more than one child would guarantee that more than one would take care of elderly parents, but rather, that there would be some chance of that, while in the case of an only child, there is[b] zero[/b] chance of that.[/quote]

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