there are some esoteric lore implications to the theme of parents eating children.
Goya's painting, which is typically interpreted as being of Saturn eating his son, would have been based on the Greek myth of Cronus (Saturn), a TITAN, eating his children because he feared the prophecy that one of them would overthrow him. This prophecy was given by Gaea, goddess of the Earth ("Then, her heart pounding, The Earth will draw her final breath").
A post in an earlier thread here pointed out that Spamton shares some traits with the Titan in his NEO battle, one of which is eating his own spawn to restore HP. Tear down the kids...tear down the set...
Metaphorically, "eating one's children" would be sacrificing their futures to maintain the status quo...maybe exchanging their lives and the possibility of a new future so that whatever is prophesied can't come to pass.
On the other hand, you have the Forgotten Man entrusting you with his eggs for safekeeping.