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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So are people supposed to have children in the hopes of having someone 'check up' on them when they're 85? It makes more sense to remain childless and use all that money that one saved and put it towards a nursing home or hospice should the time come. Unless you're Asian, expecting your children to be at your beck and call when they're thousands of miles away is naive. It's also unfair to burden adult children with eldercare when they didnt ask to be born. [/quote]

Yes. Why do you think people had litters of children in the past? For labor and care. Traditionally, the youngest daughter was supposed to stay unmarried and take care of the parents. [/quote]

We didn't want to have children just so that in the last parts of our life there was someone who might take care of us.

I don't have an answer about what we will do if and when we get old enough that we need help. I hope we will be part of a community where we all help each other. Or maybe we'll be f*cked like so many other Americans.

I think I'd have really enjoyed having adult children - and having grandchildren - but I do not think I would have been a good parent of young children or teens. So, we'll figure it out, I guess.[/quote]

People had “litters” because they didn’t have reliable BC.[/quote]

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