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Never expect to raise children for old age, otherwise the old age is very bleak

Raising children for old age is like raising children as an investment, it is always a risky investment

By UdleyPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Never expect to raise children for old age, otherwise the old age is very bleak
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Nowadays, there is a common phrase in the mouths of parents who are promoting their children: "Don't see you relaxed now, in the future when you are old and sick in bed, you will know how important it is to have someone who can serve tea and water". This is not an alarmist statement, but also reflects the recognition of "raising children for old age". Some people will say that raising children is an investment, sowing now and harvesting later, especially in the future, the aging phenomenon is serious, a child to give you old age, parents can at least rest assured that many.

However, parents with children should not be brainwashed by this. Those who are urged to have a baby or even a second child, but also to ensure a sober perception. The most important thing that you can do is to believe that you are naive. Never expect to raise children to prevent old age, otherwise, the later years are very bleak.

Expecting to raise a child for old age is like treating raising a child as an investment, which is always a risk

Many parents think that raising a child is an investment and that it is worth the investment now to have someone to take care of your parents in their later years. But I have to say, if an investment there are risks, some risks, and may even make you lose the principal.

Raising a child risk: the child grows up without success, and parents not only can not benefit from the light but also have to subsidize.

In addition to the family education, a child's future success depends on the environment around him and the opportunities of his time. Even if the parents try their best to educate, the child's influence is limited, if the child is born with low qualifications, after adolescence in the environment of his peers and not so good, a high probability of becoming unproductive.

If the child is not successful, even if you do not nibble on the old man, if you come across a child with bad habits, parents not only can not enjoy their old age but also have to pay his debts, the rest of his life can not even live a stable life.

The second risk of raising a child: the child grows up to be too successful, leaving the country and not around, and the parents are still lonely in their old age.

Of course, some parents have raised their children to be successful, but too successful children are either busy with their careers or simply work and settle abroad, and what parents can count on in their old age are only bank accounts and telephone greetings. For parents who are lonely in their old age, the children cannot come home often to see them, without the spiritual comfort of their children, and their parents are still miserable in their old age.

Moreover, the above assumptions are based on the premise that children are filial, regardless of whether they are successful. But in this world, there are many unfilial children. So, raising an ungrateful child is considered a failure of parental investment? Such a child, when the parents in their old age, can point to it?

With most of the life of hard work in exchange for the last unclear years, is it worth it?

Some may say that parental education plays a big role in whether a child is filial or not. Even if the children we raise are very filial and can add to their parents' later years, then, parents in the children raised to adulthood, help children to start a family, grandchildren born after a few years or even a dozen years, will be their most rich and strong decades are spent on children, to the last few years of life can be taken care of, it is worth it? You have to work harder to get some savings and hire a caregiver in your old age.

How do rationalize the birth of a child?

For the matter of having children, if you simply want to have children, you can, after all, as senior animals, human beings have the urge to reproduce offspring. If you have been brainwashed to think that you are investing in your old age, or that you are having a second child to have more children around to take care of you when you get sick in your old age, you should be careful. The uncertainty of old age indeed makes people anxious, but to mitigate the risk of having nothing to live on in old age depends on physical exercise and financial savings in the early years, and it is not a good idea to put it on raising children with huge expenses and risk factors.

Do you agree with the statement "raising children for old age"?

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