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3. Besides, as I grow older I'm really beginning to need them

Reply to rug (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 04:49 PM

Feb 2017

to get me safely through these senior years.

I have four adult children. Between one out-of-town, one disabled, and two very busy with work, I have lately concluded that I should have had more kids, though I doubt that at the time neither I nor spouse could have handled any more.

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The enduring bond between an evangelical father and his humanist son [View all] rug Feb 2017 OP

Having adult children whose religious and political beliefs differ from my own, No Vested Interest Feb 2017 #1

Yeah. If you cut your children off, who won't you cut off? rug Feb 2017 #2

Besides, as I grow older I'm really beginning to need them No Vested Interest Feb 2017 #3

I hope we don't get to the point where our children are the replacement for Social Security. rug Feb 2017 #4