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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're heading in a few decades toward a situation where there will be many homeless elderly people on the streets, man and women. No one will bat an eye, either. [b]These homeless elderly people either had no children, or didn't value developing strong, close, positive relationships with their children, and are now navigating old age all alone.[/b] If you don't have the money, you'll end up on the streets. Elderly care is expensive.[/quote]

This is the biggest load of crap I've heard in a while.

1. Children have zero obligation to take care of you at any time regardless of how nice you were (or more likely think you were) to them. Children don't get to make the decision to exist, so when you make the decision to bring them into existence the onus of you providing for them falls 100% on you and 0% the other way around. Children can certainly choose to support parents but if they do not it is not a failing of obligations, a failing of morals, or anything else. You don't get to throw someone into a life sentence prison term against their will and have the audacity to say I fed and clothed you, provided you a cell, now you owe me for everything I did for you!

2. Children cost about a quarter million dollars apiece to raise to 18. Anyone who decides not to have children had automatically given themselves the biggest leg up for a healthy retirement imaginable. You're acting like not having kids is automatically dooming yourself to a life of poverty, but I'll tell you the same thing I tell everyone who asks me "you aren't having kids? who will take care of you in your old age?" The person I hire to take care of me with all the money I saved not having kids, that's who. [/quote]

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