Elderly Care Responsibilities

The aging population in this case are literally offering him free childcare. Bit of quid pro quo wouldn't hurt?

.. fewer elderly to take care of?

In some sense, either your kids take care of you OR other people's kids take care of you when you are too old to physically support yourself.Outside of euthanasia when you become physically infirm, there is no other way to live through old age.

I disagree. I hope my children do not spend inordinate amount of resources helping me. I want them to live life while they are young and healthy.If I ever need day to day care for basic needs, I hope I can put myself out of my misery. I want society’s resources to go towards the young, not to keep 80+ year olds limping along.I watched my parents spend their youth taking care of day to day needs for my dad’s elderly parents. What a waste. My grandparents lived far too long, especially

>> there will be nobody to look after you in your old age.What a sick, selfish society. If you can't take care of yourself maybe it's time to go?

I'm all for having as many children as you can raise, and caring about old people, but interpret the following how you wish. It is a highly anomalous thing in the history that ordinary people receive real medical care when they are unable to do basic tasks themselves. You might have some basic care if your children care about you, but that's about it, and that might be our future and there's very little we can do about it except enabling policies that make having children viable o

Yes but you'll have (at least) two children that will take care of you in your old age!

Old people are dependents too, the middle age people take care of them.

Gotta have kids in the first place to raise kids that know to respect and care for the elderly. Otherwise this sentiment sounds like "I hope other people raise kids that know to respect and care for elders" because it's not like people are financially rewarded for most kinds of elder care, at least in the US, and that labor has to come from somewhere.The nuclear family has the side effect of needing to put elders in a care facility rather than them living at home with the rest

No, I just listened (or had to listen on trips to grocery store) to her commiserations since I was the only one she could vent to.Slinging ads for Meta and Alphabet affords you the ability to go on vacation. My mom was not getting anything for cooking and cleaning and taking care of my non driving, non English speaking, non working grandparents. On top of my mom having to work and help my dad try and operate a small business. In fact, she regrets not being able to spend more time and resou