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With all due respect, I think your personal bias is entirely coloring your opinion here. Most people have at least an amicable relationship with their parents as adults, generally much closer than that. Just because you have a bad one doesn't mean people shouldn't have kids.
In fact we need more kids, especially when raised by progressive people, because the fascists are having them too.
We're not going to out-breed stupid or evil. Tbh, having a kid for the sake of shoving them into that death spiral is cruel as fuck.
...also kids aren't their parents - you can do all the right steps in raising them and still wind up with a fucking Nazi once they leave the house, and now we've got a net loss on all fronts.
Vice versa is also true ofc, but please don't crank out a baby just to use it as a footsoldier in a losing war on a dying planet.
The cruelest thing a person could ever do to another human is to bring them into the world.
Suffering and death are the only guarantees on this mortal coil.
Lots of good in between, but still.
The lots of good in between is not guaranteed.
I didn't say 'don't have kids', but you must realize that you are forcing a being into the world that may not see things as you do, regardless of what/how/why, and assuming they will follow an assumed plan that you have carved out is... controlling another being, in any capacity, that isn't 100% concentual, is bad in my view. Hard stop, no exceptions. If that is 'I don't want to be your nurse in old age', or 'I loathe that you have created me' or anything in between or beyond, is irrelevant.