You don't have to have children to be empathetic towards your parents.
I've seen this idea casually thrown around on reddit.
People imply that you can't empathize with your parents or are inherently more selfish because you've yet to have children.
Honestly, I wrote a whole post explaining myself, a whole backstory, but fuck it. This is common sense. If you really think someone has to have children to empathize with their parents as people and mature, you're projecting hard. It's not my fault you had to have kids to grow the fuck up, don't put that on me.
I'm sick of people acting like having children is THE stepping stone to maturity because they couldn't figure their shit out on their own before making babies.
Posted Sep 26, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC
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It's absolutely excruciating.
It lends to all the "as a mother", "as a father", "as a parent" nonsense.
Like SHUT THE FUCK UP. It took you having to procreate to grow a sense of empathy? And even then it's limited to their own short and narrow little worldview, like they can't look beyond themselves or their immediate family or their own tribe to feel for others.
Like, empathy should be developed WELL before you start pumping out offspring.