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I think that’s pretty irrelevant, I personally don’t have enough time in the day to take care of anyone else
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This. Kids have jobs living pay cheque to pay cheque, they won’t have time for elder care
I warn my parents about this too
On the contrary, we should normalize the concept of the greater family again. Having grandparents help with our young kids solves a lot of modern issues for a family where both parents work, and I will of course do everything to aid my elderly parents as they now age.
We built a house for them on our property in preparation for this. When the time comes (soon), they won’t need to rely on shitty gov workers.
This would have been possible if boomers hadn’t decided to destroy human civilization instead.
I’m in Sweden. Human civilization is all good here.
Show off.
Please. It’s not about boomers as you can see that most people are not recycling, etc. etc. etc. and haven’t been since pretty much forever to this day.
Remember, please, that this is a war between the billionaires and the rest of us. Don’t let them win.
Here is your house where you live forever and change our diapers later on. You better find a wife soon who in into that. You’re welcome.
Yeah I’m not super into “I’ve got mine, screw you!”.
Yep.
3 kids. They each and all want us.Life isn’t linear. One can’t make ‘plans’, as this expertise keeps insisting. One may be aware of ‘options’, but one never knows until one is faced with it, irl.
You don’t need a gazillion dollars in retirement savings, either. You won’t be sailing on personal yachts meeting your friends for afternoon tea on Easter Island.
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Jokes on you, I am never having kids.
And for the few kids in the generation taking care of you, will have to work like slaves to provide sub-par care.
That part will suck.
Not having kids means I can afford to retire comfortably.
A corollary: Do not assume you want your child to be your caregiver in your old age, as they will not necessarily be inclined to do anything in the way you would prefer.
One of my partner’s relatives has a progressive disease and she definitely doesn’t want her kids upending their lives to be her carers. As she puts it “I didn’t raise them and pay for their education just for them to end up changing my diapers”.
I find it wild this is even an expectation. I have never expected this.
My sister is my mother’s main caregiver. Better her than me. She inherits the house and most of the assets and will have more than earned it.
asians expect this out of thier children, but if they arnt in a career, they constantly badger how “terrible” they are compared to this “x person whos earning more money”. sorry you spent to much time not fostering growth. theres a difference between working so much, to the point your children dont have the tools to functionally normally as an adults.
