The same reason one gives birth to a child is the same reason another abandons it—for themselves. Those who call having children a noble mission or an act of selflessness rarely stop to ask where that urge truly comes from. Instead, they repeat the narratives inherited from parents, society, and media. Driven by impulse and cloaked in the idea of a “life calling”, they pass on the same beliefs without ever questioning them.

Being a parent by nature means being selfish. Mothers, at the moment of childbirth or after, are not thinking about the fact that by giving birth they have already condemned that child to death—just one of many examples of the lack of awareness we’ve always been taught to ignore.

A parent should only be someone whose awareness has reached such lengths, yet still grants themselves the right to make a mistake of that magnitude—like a person dying of lung cancer who continues dragging on a cigarette until their final breath.