No, they don't.
It is by natural low of live and evolution.
As living
creature you are obliged to extend live. Having kids is not a "work"
but fulfillment of this destiny. They are not product of your labor
but product of your genetical heritage.
I other way,
one can say, that kids owns parents. Why? Because by the same rule of
natural low, there is an expectation that parents should prefer
behavior supporting children. Parents are servs to the children. If
they are servs, they can not be owners. Parens are given to the
children by the nature as one of natural resources supporting their
lives.
If we take this
as fundamental axiom of the live and compare with current societies,
it became clear how up-side-down all the world is. National debt,
unfounded liabilities, nuclear waste, diminished resources by
Keynesian grow by consumption madness - all that is directly
destroying younger generation.
Generational
Payback is coming:
Neil Howe and
William Strauss on The Fourth Turning in 1997 CSpan