Will you spend your kids inheritance?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We've already done so. Right now we're working on her college fund. By 2008, we should be breaking into her piggy bank.

[Jon Miller]

I do think that kids should be assisted by their parents up to the point that the kids graduate college. After that, there is no obligation and everything is just famial support (which is still a good idea).

Like if you are older, and your neice needs some clothes, I wouldn't see anything wrong with buying her some (of course, if her mother was like my sister, she would take off in a few months for some drug/crime/other related reason, and leave all the clothes that relatives had bought for the girl behind..)

Jon Miller

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
if people (like myself) are giving away charity, then my grandkids with a poor parent will be assisted by that...

and why should I enable my child to make more poor choices?

if my children are minors, then of course my wealth should support them...

Jon Miller

Why just your minor children and not your grandchildren?

If charities are qualified to look after your brats' brats, why aren't they up to looking after your brats?

[Jon Miller]

Because from personal experience, if one of my kids is making poor choices, giving the money to their children won't do any good...

Additionally, I have an obligation to my own children, which I don't have to my extended family (including grandchildren).

Jon Miller

[notyoueither]

Where from comes this severing of responsibility?

[notyoueither]

I would take the contrary POV.

If you screwed your own kid up badly, you'd have increased responsibility for the spawn of the monster you created.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Zkribb is correct.

That's incredibly stupid. "Oh no, my adopted kid will be the straw that broke the camel's back. Without me he/she would have died and not put any strain on the world's resources."

Edit: not to mention the stupidity of measuring a human's worth in terms of the human's "efficiency" or whatever have you. "Oh noes, this human will not provide a return on investment, we must destroy it and invest on a human from Cambodia that will produce more energy than it consumes."

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
House gets sold and goes to charity.

What if the house happens to be an item of significant sentimental value?`

[Jon Miller]

Your kid being screwed up is not always your fault.

And as I said, the one thing with the kids of screwed up people, is often times your assistance is wasted/rejected/enabling of worse behavior.

Like my sister gets support from relatives and the government, and blows the money she recieves on drugs and the like, often getting kicked out of the place she was living at (sometimes leaving her kids with more responsible people as she runs arround, other times dragging them arround with her).

Items that are given to her kids get destroyed/left behind/thrown out. Money gets blown (as I have described). The only thing that really is any good is to be there where she is and try to take care of her kids when she isn't taking care of them (which is most of the time). You can't do that with a little bit of money or anything like that. You can only help by living, and living near her.

peace,
Jon Miller

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by loinburger

That's incredibly stupid. "Oh no, my adopted kid will be the straw that broke the camel's back. Without me he/she would have died and not put any strain on the world's resources."

It actually makes sense from an environmental POV.

A person left to live in a third world country is going to consume significantly less than if brought to a 'first world' country.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Your kid being screwed up is not always your fault.

Fault and responsibility are not the same thing.

And as I said, the one thing with the kids of screwed up people, is often times your assistance is wasted/rejected/enabling of worse behavior.

How would an education fund for the grandkid lead to worse behaviour in the child?

Like my sister gets support from relatives and the government, and blows the money she recieves on drugs and the like, often getting kicked out of the place she was living at (sometimes leaving her kids with more responsible people as she runs arround, other times dragging them arround with her).

Items that are given to her kids get destroyed/left behind/thrown out. Money gets blown (as I have described). The only thing that really is any good is to be there where she is and try to take care of her kids when she isn't taking care of them (which is most of the time). You can't do that with a little bit of money or anything like that. You can only help by living, and living near her.

I am not going to argue with you about a personal situation. I am sorry to hear it.

But aren't there alternatives to giving the child money directly?

peace,
Jon Miller

Peace is a good thing.

[MRT144]

my children will not recieve inheritance if they dont work for it with their own labor.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by notyoueither
It actually makes sense from an environmental POV.

A person left to live in a third world country is going to consume significantly less than if brought to a 'first world' country.

This is true. Likewise, a person who dies from malaria is going to consume significantly less than someone who doesn't. Thay'd why it makes sense to ban DDT to protect the environment from those who would seek to damage the environment to protect their children.

I am highly suspect of anybody who would sacrifice the well-being of the downtrodden to improve their own well-being (or to improve the well-being of others who rely on the well-being on "the environment"), regardless of whether they're a self-proclaimed "communist" or not.

[notyoueither]

Environmentalists seek to improve the well-being of the entire world.

I don't recall Che saying the decision was for his own benefit.

[notyoueither]

In fact, it would have drawbacks for him and bunnygrl.

They would be stuck in the line for a very long time to get an infant, if they ever did get one. Competition is fierce, or so I am led to beleive.

A couple who decided to follow Che's advice might have to make sacrifices (like take an older child) to keep to a decision that is made to take personal responsibility for the use of the world's resources.