C343 And Row and Cherish
He didn't want the innocent child to fall in front of him. He felt that the birth of a child, or at least the birth of the child's parents, if they were happy and only used the child as their gambling chip, then the life of the child, from the moment he was born, could be assured that he was unhappy.
If that was the case, then if a parent like him didn't value this child