Warb, I have no idea if the poor kid is still alive physically but the nurse told me that there wasn’t much in the way of corrective therapy. His brain was damaged by the overdose. Physical therapy and surgery might have been able to stop some of his actions but in terms of the self it was just gone enough be beyond function but not still there enough to be restored.

It was truly horrific for me as a casual observer so heavens knows what his poor mother had to go through. It was her prescribed medication he used.
The thought of bringing a child into the world and they using something of yours to not quite kill themselves really puts anything the world throws at me into perspective.
You are a long time dead so you might as well give life a good go.

As for development, some children are probably fit to escape the nest at nine, some never, if you use an arbitrary age to say “job done” you are pretty awful as a parent. That it works for some is no excuse. If you decide to create a life you should be an available presence for the rest of your days (In my opinion which isn’t law or the last word on anything). Honour from children is not a given it needs to earned. It’s not an alchemical reaction of egg plus sperm.