Chapter 8 claims that true parents do not want their children to remain beneath them. They want them to surpass them. Real love prepares successors who go farther, shine brighter, and carry the tradition to a higher level.
This is a strong corrective to insecure forms of leadership and parenting that quietly need children to stay dependent. Love does not preserve itself by shrinking the next generation.
It also gives parenting a future-facing dignity. Parents are not only protectors of what exists; they are cultivators of what can exceed them.