Do I really need to add the /sarc tag...
And even those who have children, might now need to worry whether those adult children will take care of them ...
... I read an article somewhere about a growing trend of adult children abandoning their elderly parents to the tender care of the State.
Although the article didn't give a theory as to why this should be, I immediately thought, "This is the day care generation." I.e., children who were abandoned to day care centers when they were small, will not bond properly with their parents -- and may not feel any particular duty toward them when their parents become old and infirm.
One more comment re the linked article in Time mag:
With fertility treatment widely available...even clinically infertile women have more options than ever to become mothers...
The "Time" writer neglects to mention something important: That we now know that some infertility treatments, e.g. IVF, run a high risk of producing children with a variety of physical and mental problems.