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She doesn't, though, not by the measures with which the terms "altruism", "self-sacrifice", "self-interest", and damn near everything else in this argument are defined by general society, and indeed everyone in this thread other than you. The entire notion of self-sacrifice is that you have some...

So you're going with a bluntly absurd definition of literally not caring about something yet putting resources toward it anyways. In the definition you give, "disinterested" is the same form of "interest" as in the phrase "conflict of interest". Merriam-Webster has this as definition 4-A-2 of...

Very extremely wrong, because humans don't operate on a rational basis. The rational self-interest argument for child-rearing is extremely complex and bears no applicability to the natural world outside humans, and as humans are in most fundamental respects no different from any other great ape...