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I don't understand the question. Are you asking why someone wouldn't abort their child?

This is not always possible, and that's not what I meant (although there's still abandon in the same vein).

There are institutes where they can be housed and cared for, instead of having to care for them 24/24, at least where I live. Most end up there by adulthood anyways, considering how hard it is to care for adults compared to children, especially when you're aging, and come back for week ends or the like.

It's incredibly expensive to do this. Most people can't afford it especially since one of the parents generally has to spend most of their time with the child forgoing work.

Yes, there are programs in most states to help the parents in this sort of situation, but most of these programs let the benefits run out when the child reaches around 21-25 years of age.

Maybe you have children, and maybe you don't, but in general the human race's survival is in large part due to parents having a deep emotional bond with their children.

One must really think very low of it's own life to enslave himself that way, that's all I'm saying. And when I see such posts or parents testimonies, they all seem fed up with their situation, and rightfully so. And it's not all because of society, and they do have a choice.

Of course, but that's what parenting is, to a huge fraction of people -- it's innately recognizing that children displace parents, generation after generation. It's not because of society, it's the cause of society.

But we're talking about children that are not going to displace their parents, because of short life expectancy, or absolute dependency on others, or limited intellectual capacities...

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