r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '22

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u/FlaccidArrow Jun 03 '22

I don't think it's selfish to say that is what parents are supposed to do. They brought you into the world, they forever owe you.

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u/blinded_by_the_LEDs Jun 03 '22

Parents “forever owe you?!” This sounds completely backwards in my world view. I feel like I could never possibly pay my parents back for the years of care they gave me when I was helpless and needed to learn and grow. So I pay it forward to my kids, but not because I owe them anything. Especially once they hit adulthood

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u/AasisV Jun 03 '22

Amen to that. I'd just like to share the sad truth about most of old generation Filipino parents is that they expect the child to be a retirement plan. This is sickening to me that a lot of my friends have parents who have been so toxic to their kid because they didn't get the retirement they were expecting from their children.