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Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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The Argument That Children Don't Owe Their Parents a Dumb Thing

LZ Granderson: Your kids didn't have a choice to be here. You literally forced them to come to your family, and they didn't get to choose you as parents. The idea that children owe their parents something is, for me, it just feels illogical," he says. LZ: I've done this selfishly six times; It's evolution. It's how we continue the human race. This is how it works. But that doesn't change the fact that your kids don't have achoice to be here."

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