I bet you’re right. Im dreading when my parents get Old and need assistance. I am in no way prepared for that.
And then I’ll be alone when I get old. No kids to help me then.
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Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t have any kids and no complaints, but something tells me we’re going to have to revisit this thought when we’re above 80 years of age.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 13 hours ago
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I dont expect to make it to 80 unless I somehow manage to survive my country losing world War 3 and stull having to go to work cause capitalists stole what little I had saved for retirement.
Default_Defect@anarchist.nexus 12 hours ago
LOL I won’t make it to 80.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah and all my tattoos will look dumb then too.
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Idk. Maybe. If you keep your love for what they represented to you, who cares though?
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 4 hours ago
My father’s counterargument to my refusing to procreate is exactly this. “Who’s going to take care of you when you’re old?” What that told me is his main reason for having kids was to have someone do that for him. Funny, because despite having lived under the same roof, he wasn’t much in my life, or has made any positive inpact on me. Everything was on mom (and sometimes grandmother). And now listening to him talk like some day I will move back to the country and abandon my entire life to take care of him/them, while right at this moment he’s being extremely financially irresponsible? Cool cool cool. My partner’s mother expects the same, all the while she doesn’t work at all because it’s beneath her.
With that said, I find having children for the sole purpose of them taking care of me in my old age not only selfish (especially with the imminent climate colapse), it’s also risky (and I’m not even talking cases where the child has disabilities and can’t take care of their own needs). And that’s in the case I even live that long.