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I don't agree with this at all. People have problems and need help all the time without it being all their fault. If they didn't, there would be almost no homeless people, maybe zero.
Yes, thank you!
There's a definite overlap in this community of people that don't want kids and people that were traumatized by their parents. I totally get that. It seems like some of them also get so fixated on "parent bad" that they paint everyone with the same experience they've had.
That's not even remotely what I said. I said they're not your responsibility and you can indeed walk away from them should you choose to because you had no hand in their existence. You can choose to help them or care for them but that is 100% a conscious choice on your end, you are under zero actual obligation to do so.