WOULD YOU CONSIDER INVESTING YOUR TIME AND ENERGY into raising kids as investment in your future?
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INTRODUCTION
 | A long while ago I've met an amazing person on Steemit and we became friends since then. @Fucho80 is his name and we've been closely in touch for the past several months. I've learned to value him a lot and respect his work as a Pastor in a smaller town somewhere in Venezuela. |
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He quickly became an important part of "project hope" and many of you surely know him already by now.
Recently, I've learned that his wife is about to give birth and I'm honestly terrified thinking of health conditions that may await them at the hospital. Naturally, part of me worries about them and for that reason I decided to ask you to join my little "quest" and also to share your view on the idea of "raising kids as an investment in our future".
CALL FOR ACTION
Obviously if you're in a position to help @fucho80 and his family with some small transfer of STEEM tokens, then please do not feel shy. Be generous instead :)
I've just transfered 100 STEEM, however I do not expect anyone else to support this case with similar amount. You can always resteem and upvote this publication (fucho80 will receive 100% rewards from this post as I set up his account as a beneficiary).
Perhaps you could also consider delegating 1 STEEM (literally one).
That simple gesture will not really change his financial situation for better, but it will surely show that we care. Sometimes it's what matters most.
WOULD YOU CONSIDER RAISING KIDS AS AN INVESTMENT IN OUR FUTURE?
 | I would like to take the opportunity to ask you that very simple question. We've all witnessed our culture and mindset change within the past several years. |
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Tradition is being pushed out by technology and it's obvious that in larger cities relationships between parents and their kids are changing.
When I was young, I've learned that having kids is the best investment for the future one can plan. I was told number of times, that once we get old there won't be anyone but our kids to look after us. And I've been wondering if this is really the case in current times? Especially when I see some developed countries, where kids are considered "goverment property" and parents are only privillaged to raise them. That surely creates a very unique mindset.
I personally am not so sure about our future as parents. With the advancement of technology, smartphones, social media, IoT, 5G etc. it's hard not to realize that there will be less and less we all will have in common with our future generation. So perhaps it's the right time to ask ourselfs these few questions:
- how to raise our kids?
- how to ensure that they will not abandon us in the future?
- do we even believe that tradition of kids taking care of their parents will still exist in the next 20-30 years?
I would love to hear your opinion.
Yours, Piotr
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Hello Piotr,
nice initiative for your friend @fucho80’s family! Congrats @fucho80 to your new family member!
Give them as much room as possible to let them grow into independent and strong people. Make sure that all they need to succeed in this is available to them.
Don't do that! It's their choice to abandon or not to abandon. If their environment of upbringing has showed this to be a part of society as a whole they maybe will consider not to abandon us.
We see these traditions erode right now already. Many families have to generate at least two incomes to keep everything economically a float. Taking care of the elders is tough with both parents working. In my estimation the future in this doesn't look all peachy and nice. I believe we'll have less multi generation families under one roof and more placing of elders in nursing homes or with dedicated payed help in their homes. One factor might also be service robots that will be used to reduce such costs further.
Cheers!
Hi @doifeellucky,
Thank you for the support and good wishes for my family.
Dear @doifeellucky
Thank you for dropping by and sharing your thoughts with us. I absolutely appeciate it.
Also thumbs up for resteeming my publication :)
I don't think anyone would like this advice. We all need to think about our future and influencing our kids and building their awareness is a must in my opinion. Waiting and hoping that our kids will take care of us in the future is almost like praying to god to solve all our problems :)
Very good point. Something I never thought about.
Yours
Piotr
I already have my investment in bringing up children. What was true twenty years ago, as if it wasn't today. But it is still the best one can do. Technology will not teach us humanity. That's why parents are here.
sorry for the returned msg's from @goldmanmorgan ... i'm not 100% sure but my guess is a combination of not being in the localized 'client' list and the fact i only yesterday discovered a cronjob on Hostinger hasnt been running for an indefinite period (it just does that by default, @goldmanmorgan as 'client' accounts have no use for sending steem so while your accountname is one of the localized wallets it will send it back, so never mind that and actually thanks lol stuff like that could end up a lot worse ...
not a problem at all @yapcat :)
Delegated to the cause. Great article. So true that children are the best investment for our future. Best regards.
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Dear Piotr, thank you to share with us this important matter as our childs.
In this world where pollution and ecology are going every day worse, how can i be sure my son will survive after 50 years? He is now 5 years old and i am doing all my best to give him the base to live when he will be adult, but this is not enough, we need to act now about our planet ecology and your country have to stop to use carbon as main material for create energy, this would be the first step in the way to save our planet.
Congratulations to @fucho80!
I am not sure what you meant by "investment" in this context. Are you referring to potential future monetary returns?
I personally think that raising a kid should never be treated as an "investment". I think one should not have any expectations on your kids as a form of revenue stream in the future. I think the older generation (especially Chinese) had this thinking of raising kids for future financial security. That's fundamentally flawed. I think as a responsible adult, one should be planning for his/her own finances to ensure there's sufficient money for retirement. We should not impose additional stress on future generations
Thank you friend @culgin, thanks for that support for my family.
Thx for dropping by and sharing your thoughts @culgin
In general as "investment" I mean that we use our resources (time, money, energy) to raise kids hoping that one day they can help us to survive once we're old.
Perhaps I'm seeing children being "an investment" because I've spent to many years living around Chinese people (either chinese-malaysians or chinese-singaporians) and that's how they seem to "work". They raise kids so in the future kids would take care of them (parents usually move to live with their own kids, even if they are married and have families). Level of independence in those communities is very ... I would say "low".
Yours
Piotr
I think that's a mindset of the older generations. I believe that it is everyone's own responsibility to plan for your own finance. So I don't think we should treat raising kids as an investment. By treating you kids as investment, you are putting unnecessary stress on them and at the same time risks on yourself. That's my 2 cents :)
Technology will move forward, new development takes places daily which will not be stopped, it is human nature to explore.
What is not human nature is walking around with blinkers on, the lack of food and water resources should stop anyone in their tracks before considering bringing more children into an over-burdened world.
Children do not owe the parents anything in their old age, where does this notion come from that one must not prepare for your own old age. Children face many different obstacles on life's path, I know many beliefs support the idea/notion that children must look after their aged parents.
Looking around at my own situation, a country with the highest number of youth in the world, the highest unemployment, crime is rampant, when do people take account of themselves?
Long term solutions need to be sought after, assisting where we are able never makes the problem go away, one child going to bed hungry is one child too many!
Big thx for your comment and for sharing your opinion on discussed topic @joanstewart
Sounds scary. What country do you have on your mind?
Yours,
Piotr
Hi, I live in South Africa where things are not great, the situation is as stated, a staggeringly high number of youth sitting without employment, many are unskilled.
Nearly every young woman under the age of 30 has at least one child, most are not married. "Social Welfare for children" introduced into any country is not a solution, where the parent is given a monthly amount for children to the age of 18 year old, certain requirements do need to be met, (however, many have babies of their own, before they themselves are age 18 years old).
Approximate amount is USD30/month currently, which really is not much money at all. With birth control everywhere I find it confusing to think people attempt to use this method to exist by having more children, a wild cycle of poverty.
Social Welfare money should be used for the aged, mentally handicapped, disabled, foster children where many have been abandoned. If there is additional money coming in then national health benefits, education should be taken into consideration first.