Couldn't agree more

"This probably seems extreme. We live in an environment where the idea that children are indebted to their parents for housing food clothing health care education toys etc. is taken in with every breath. Children are expected to be at the very least appropriately grateful for their parents’ provision of such and to perform acts of gratitude on demand. Children are expected to respect and maintain contact with parents and only the most appalling behavior on the part of parents — with the burden of proving those things happened falling on the child — justifies protests that such contact is undesirable or unsafe.

But children owe their parents nothing. Not contact. Not respect. Not gratitude. Nothing. Anything parents get along these lines is a gift.

No child ever has any input or agency into whether or not xe is born. Xer life is something xer parents chose (for given values of choosing) to create. In that choosing those parents become responsible for this life until xe is able to live independently or until someone else accepts responsibility for xer. Having a child is ultimately a selfish act and one with enormous consequences. That’s not a bad thing — selfish itself carries no moral weight in any direction — just a thing. It just means parents don’t get to claim their selfish action also places an obligation on the person created by their selfish actions.

Okay. Clearly parents do claim exactly this and social structures back them up on it. But it’s wrong. It’s one more oppressive power structure I want to see burned down."