Having children is a choice and care can be more easily planned. The duration of care is also shorter.

Right, so if you don't plan to sacrifice your lifestyle to raise a kid, don't be surprised when that kid doesn't sacrifice their lifestyle to take care of you.

What point are you even trying to make, given that this article concerns the hardship of people who are voluntarily caring for their parents?

You choose to have children, you don't choose to be born.

This is a popular yet awful take

It's the truth.

In a narrowly pedantic way, sure. But that doesn't make this take useful or right

Sure it does. I owe my daughter more than anybody else in the world. The legal system would seem to agree.

Generalizing this is harmful. It does not follow that things that we did not choose are not our responsibility.

Not if you're in certain states, that choice is taken away from you.

Changing diapers is a lot easier in one of those cases. Now throw in the inversion of watching someone grow up. Your remark is in very poor taste.

Having children and not taking care of them is in very poor taste. We see it all the time where people become parents, yet continue to focus on themselves rather than sacrificing their wants to focus on the needs of their child. It's easier to see how people would be less willing to sacrifice their time to take care of a parent that did not sacrifice time to raise them.

Sure, maybe too much of a drive by comment for this esteemed body of learned readers (ha!), but I'm just pointing out a possible source/cause of the cycle.