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It sounds to me that we need to, as a culture, understand the tremendous responsibility and privilege of putting a new human being on this overpopulated world to be a good place into the future, remove this entitlement, and make it the most honourable respectable choice to refrain when you can't make it work.

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Unfortunately that translates to "poor people shouldn't have children", which is not a politically correct demand to make.

We are making it work and we will succeed. But it doesn't need to be like this. It could be better, for everyone.

I think at a social level, we'd generally get happier, healthier, more well adjusted young adults in exchange.

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