You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works, and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck, and God help the child.
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.
There would come a time when roles would reverse and the adult child would become the caretaker of the ill parent. The circle of life.
I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything: for whom what could not be weighed, measured and priced, had no existence.
I hear my father and my mother and they are my giants, my king and my queen, beside whom there are no others so wise and worthy or honorable or brave or beautiful in this world.