How crazy is that 😅, I was literally just about to ask this question too

In my opinion, the answer ignores a sharp difference between having a child at an advanced age and the case of a single mother or divorce. I mean the father dying while the offspring is still a child. That is a very great harm, different from the other cases.

There are tragedies in the world, and children manage with them. There are, of course, differences between situations, but I think I showed that in principle this consideration is really not decisive. In a very extreme situation, maybe it has a place.

Abaye said that thank God he didn’t have a father (he was an orphan), because the commandment of honoring one’s father is so difficult!

That isn’t necessarily because of the difficulty, but because of the severity of the transgression if you fail.

I join Doron’s point. There is, seemingly, a big difference here: a person chooses, out of personal interests (however lofty they may be), to bring a child into the world when it is clear that this child will grow up without a father, and the mother as well will not be able to function properly and meet his needs. To choose from the outset to do such a thing is not moral. This is different from the situations that you, Michi Abraham, described, where the child can function properly and his parents, at the basic level, give him what he needs, and there is some horizon of hope that the situation can also improve (poor parents can improve their lives; the child too can adapt to such a life fairly easily, unlike a situation in which he has no parents, and so on).
And of course, if it really were a couple who were hopeless drug addicts, it would be an immoral act on their part if they chose to bring a child into the world.
To sum up in one sentence: one can prefer our quality of life over the quality of life of another person (situations in which imperfect parents, out of personal interest, bring a child who will be harmed a bit by that), but when it is our quality of life versus the destruction of the other person’s life (a child who grows up without parents, when his chances are high for an abnormal life) — that is already immoral.
I’d be glad to hear your view, Rabbi Michi.

That’s not what Doron wrote. He distinguished between a father who died and a father who never existed. The comparison to a single mother is accurate.

Okay, let’s not get stuck on what Doron wrote. I wrote my own claim, which is that I think there is a blatantly inaccurate comparison here. A single mother can raise her child in a proper way, and that isn’t something whose future is obviously bleak. A parent who has a child knowing that he is leaving the world within just a few years, and that his mother will not be fit to care for him, and you don’t know exactly what will become of such a child — that is already an injustice.

Well then, now you actually did go back to what Doron wrote. I answered that in my opinion there is no essential difference.
If his mother will not be fit to care for him, that is a different matter. But that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about the fact that his father will probably die when he is still young. In any case, at age 88 he probably won’t be playing tag with him.