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Originally Posted by Seiryuu
The practicality of their arguments does not change the fact that they are stupid jackasses who didn't even have the decency to think of the girl herself. Rin had just lost her father and her mother was missing, she had no one. And these people first talk about what the father was thinking having an illegitimate kid, then insult the girl's mother saying that there's no use dealing with the sort of person who abandons their kid. What's worse, at the father's funeral, with the girl just outside the room, they have the nerve to start wondering whether she's really his daughter.
Sometimes the most contemptible excuses are the realistic ones. These people presented their statements like they were carefully considered issues and problems that would come from taking Rin, but really in all they were nothing more than excuses to insist that someone else take her. They even went so far as to come up with unfounded suspicions of mental handicaps. Every one of them grabbed at whatever they could as a reason to refuse the girl, and none of them took a moment to consider the girl herself. Daikichi was possibly the worst equipped to raise a child, but he was absolutely the only person there who looked at Rin as a six-year-old human child who needed someone to care for her, while everyone else looked at her as a burden and a mark of shame that their grandfather had left them with. If it had been a legitimate child who they'd known about, like Reina, they would've said similar things but acted as if they felt that someone needed to take her. Their behavior towards taking Rin was no better than if they'd been discussing how to pay a mountain of debt the old man had left behind. That is why I felt it wrong that the retort was cut, because those people deserved to feel some real shame at how they'd behaved.
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It takes about nearly $300,000 to raise a kid to 18 years of age, not counting college expenses. Parents are less happy than couples without one. Parents have worse health conditions, have less happy marriage life, and are more likely to file for divorce than nonparents. Parents are more likely to suffer from depression.
Rearing a child entails serious personal, social, and financial consequences, and people need to consider their responsibilities and their abilities to take on a child. There is no shame in refusing to take on a responsibility that could potentially destroy your mental and financial health. What good will it do for Rin if taking her in would result in divorces?
We don't jump into a water to save a person who is about to drown without first considering our swimming skill. We don't try adopting a kid without considering our abilities in providing her with a suitable and stable home environment.
Now back to our regular scheduled anime program....