No, the child is not obliged to take care of you in old age!

How do you expect your child to sacrifice himself for you? Take care of yourself? Why would he do that?
I write these lines from the position of a child, but also from the position of a mother. Of course I would not let my parents suffer and of course I would be with them if they needed to, but I am also a mother. And from this position, it’s the last thing I want. Why would I want to be a burden to my child? Because I sacrificed my youth for him? Well, if I did, I’d think the poor kid was to blame.
If I do that, I do it because I choose to. The parent-child relationship is not an exchange. The parent-child relationship should be one of guidance. And the guide is, of course, the parent.
I don’t make or raise a child for myself
Instead, I do it and raise it so that it can be FREE. INDEPENDENT.
COURAGE . And on my word if that means turning it into my cane in my old age. As a mother, it would seem so selfish to pretend to be helped by my child, but from my parents’ child’s slippers, I see things differently. I know I couldn’t sit with my hands on my chest, I couldn’t be happy knowing they’re not well, I couldn’t put my head on the pillow knowing they needed me.
That’s how they raised me. Everything for me and so little for them.
