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* Culture telling women that if they desire to be a full-time mother they're inferior to career women.

"Inferior" in the sense of less highly paid - well, yeah. I don't think this is a gendered thing, simply the fact that people pay you to do work but not to have kids. Nobody can afford to have kids on a single parent's income anymore.

> Nobody can afford to have kids on a single parent's income anymore.

What? My wife hasn't worked in 15 years and we have 7 children at home. I'm not rich, we just budget.

Not rich? What percentile do you think your net worth is? That home of yours, that's big enough to house 7 kids - you own it?

Buddy - you're rich. You don't seem to realize how utterly out of reach your lifestyle is to the vast majority of people.

Dude my house is less than 2,000 square feet. I think you're making a lot of assumptions.

I don't think this is fair. I've known lots of big families at median income or lower and like the GP says, it's about budgeting and priorities. There's a big difference in the cost per kid of having two in daycare, then each with their own room, their own new clothes, etc, vs 7 kids cared for by a parent, wearing hand me downs, eating home cooked meals, etc.

Wow, you sure seem to know a lot about this person you've never met before!

Hell hath no fury like someone who thinks some other person has too much on the internet.

That isn't the reality in the USA. I know lots of people who have done this. Many of them have ordinary jobs. One with a pair of kids has the man earning about $60,000 today, with a career that switches back and forth between making concrete block walls and making picture frames. Another person is a handyman with, last I heard, 9 kids. Another person is a shift manager at a care facility for the mentally unwell, with 7 kids.

People with better-paying jobs have more of course. I know a person with 11 kids, doing technical training I believe. I have 12 kids, supported on a career involving low-level software.

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