Why do people have children when the children will grow up and abandon the parents?

Answer 1

Because it's seldom truly abandonment on the child's part. Sooner or later, most children come back to their parents, whether to live, visit, or reconcile. On a very primal level, we have children to perpetuate the species, which is oddly mirrored in the fact that births of male babies go up drastically in times of war.

Mothers may tell you they do it for the love they see, give, and receive. Fathers may say it's to 'pass on the family name'. Mark it with whatever color ink, wrap it in any sort of packaging, it still comes down to we, as a race or as individuals, wanting to continue and to be remembered.

Of course, my son wasn't really planned, and we weren't completely sure we could handle a child... but seeing him smile at me now, at four... I can see why we want to keep doing it. ;)

Answer 2

Its the cycle of life. Children need to abandon their parents when they grow up so they can become parents and so on. At the end we need to keep the worlds population. Also the children should not abandon (forget) their parents, they just stop living with them. The job of the parents is to give their child an excellent example of behavior they will always remember. When the child faces situations in the future he should think "what will my parents do in this situation?" thats the point when the parents know they made a good job.

Answer 3

It's part of life. They have to live their own lives. And some day they will have kids and those kids will grow up and they to are going to want the same. Some people look at having kids like property. They may be ones children. But they have wants and needs of their own.

Answer 4

It is a part of our job as parents to teach kids to live independently from us. If they have abandoned you, then you've done something wrong. I don't expect my children to take care of me when I'm not able to do it myself but I do expect them to stick around.

Answer 5

We have children for the purpose of seeing them how they grow up - it's a lot of joy (and sorrow sometimes) to see them developing from a helpless baby to a grown up, to see your own grandchildren being born, just how the circle of life goes on and on.

I've been working in geriatric care and saw grown up children who care for their elderly parents, giving up their own lives and families - I don't want that for my daughter later on. I don't want her to feel the social pressure to care for me one day. If she really wants it, ok, but I would not want her to give up everything else just to care for me. It will be her decision.

My parents live 300 miles away from me in my former home-village, and we're just trying to figure out a plan for the case, that they ever need care.

Answer 6

abandon????? thats growing up, if you arent an adult you dont need kids, if you are not able to take them growing up.