A Parent Should Not Expect Their Child To Care For Them – Michael Tobi Taiwo

A man shared how he raised his stepdaughter from infancy after her father abandoned her and her mother, supporting her through university — only for her to later buy a car for her biological father instead. While many sympathized with his pain, one biased comment read, “When you do things for people, forget about what they’ll do for you to pay you back.” Though it sounds philosophical, it dismisses the man’s deep emotional investment. He didn’t help a stranger; he raised her as his own child. Gratitude and appreciation should naturally follow such sacrifice — not be trivialized under the guise of “expect nothing.”