No one should take excessive risks after they have kids. Its selfish.

People in jail are full of risk takers. You need to make risks and do what you love to do before you have children. After having kids the importance is on money and stability. As sarcastic as you were it is true that Child Welfare will take your kids away if you can't feed them. This is true whether it is taking a funner higher risk job over your boring stable one or excessive investing or starting a business. You should not do these things until your kids are 18. It is a fact of life.

In the 19th century you could go to debtors prison and lose your kids if you went bankrupt. There was no bankruptcy laws ... at least none I am aware of.

Don't like it? Then do not have kids. Its capitalism and a fact of life. The mistakes need to be low risk as the kids come first in every decision.

If he was a good father he would not have to to do the tour to pay his debts. It seems he picked the lesser of 2 evils to try to prevent his kids from starving, but he had to abandon his family to keep the banks off his ass from decisions he made prior.

"Your life is your own damn fault" - Larry Winget

Sorry Mr. Twain but I don't think your daughters should be able to live in luxury, without working, while they collect money off your books for another 50 years. If you want to pass your existing money to them, that's fine, but the copyright should end the moment you die. Let your daughters go-out and work for themselves if they want to continue collecting money.

Copyright is intended to benefit the original laborer, not to set up an eternal money-making machine for people who did not do the original labor.