Parenthood

It is noting special to be a parent or have a kid. Any retard with working sex organs can reproduce. Parenting isn't about knocking someone up, it's about actually being there and raising the children. It's not about forcing the offspring into rigid modes of dogmatic acceptance, either. It's more about gardening.

Good parents aren't those that indoctrinate their children into being mindless clones imitating mommy/daddy. Good parents guide, direct, and nurture growth. They don't force it into a singular expression. It's the difference between bonsai and bell peppers.

Bonsai are constantly clipped, modified, formed, and manipulated until they become the desired shape. Bell peppers are planted, given water, weeded, stressed at certain points to provide varieties of color, texture, and taste. As should be apparent, it's a thin line- sometimes- between the one and the other.

Shitting out a kid, abandoning it, but paying lipservice to your own parentalship, that's certainly not parenting.