Children should not be brought into this world to fix adult problems. If a person is unhappy, broke, unfulfilled, and unstable, they should not have a kid to fix those problems. And yet, the unfulfilled desires of parents are a reason why so many kids are born. It is true that the addition of parental responsibility is often a wake-up call for people to get their life together, and many parents claim that having a kid is the most fulfilling thing that ever happened to them. That being said, parents should not live vicariously through their children or use their children to solve their childhood traumas. A lot of adult adoptees talk about the burden of feeling like they were used as a solution to their adoptive parent’s fertility problems.  The primary responsibility of parenting is to prepare children to be independent, intelligent, capable, and kind adult members of society.