PS: The point here is NOT that poor people shouldn't have kids, it's that no one should be having kids without having the basics of childcare covered, which necessitates widespread systemic, societal, and economic change so that no parent needs to worry about those basics, and kids can grow up in secure, healthy environments. I completely forgot to mention this when I originally posted it, and that's my bad.
It isn’t, my wife and I regularly say “have the kids you can afford”.
I don’t own a boat I can’t fix, a house I can fix, a car I can’t fix. Why then would it be okay to have a baby I can’t feed.
Point fingers at the system, sure. But that still doesn’t fix the issue that it’s a bad faith decision to “figure it out”.
I know what that means, cheap Walmart food and childhood obesity. Setting young people up for failure. Meanwhile parents not contributing to their retirements for 10+ years with the plan being my kid will take care of me! Lmao no.