Six kids here, I use the “we needed some backups” joke all the time.

My dad told it to me. I was the second backup.

You can have humour and children at the same time...

Or people who have a sense of black humor. Never heard dads make dark puns and jokes of similar nature?

The same people downvoting you would be outraged and screenshotting you for a mob on Reddit and private Discord servers if you made similar comments about their pets.