Hear Me Out: Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything
Slate Gender and Society
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Celeste Headley: Mother's Day and Father's Day are fraught holidays for lots of Americans. She says they're also deeply political because parenting, whether you like it or not, is political as well. We know what parents owe their kids, though that's up for debate by some people, she says. But the question we want to ask is what do children owe their parents? And is it inherently selfish act in at least some sense to bring a child into the world in the first place?
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