"kids: if you can't afford them, use a condom"
It is totally possible to predict when you'll become poor and therefore decide not to have kids. It beats me why do people ever get poor when life is just a sequence of such obvious decisions.
It is totally possible to predict when you'll become poor and therefore decide not to have kids. It beats me why do people ever get poor when life is just a sequence of such obvious decisions.
If you cannot afford it, do not have children. I can totally understand if you had the children before you, eg, lost your job or whatever. Things happen, situations change. The problem is the people who don't already have children. Also, if you cannot afford it, you need to be extra careful not to have an "accidental" pregnancy.
This generation's moonshot public works project should be a low cost reversible renewable year-long sterilization technology.
Also, harsh as seems, it would help if newborns on welfare were taken to orphanages and treated well there instead of generating funds for their genetic ancestors.
At least for women, that already exists (IUD, implanon). The problem is, for any medical technology there's side effects, and people still need to consent to it.
Congratulations are in order anyway, so here are mine, and I really hope that you get that job. My children were all planned and even if I did fall on hard times (twice) in the intermediate the fact that we cut down to the bone as soon as trouble hit helped us survive. Things that don't kill you will make you stronger.
Of course, someone who really believes in the market would harvest the child for organs. (Sarcasm implied.)
Good luck, boss!
Make a solid investment in her, and she'll pay you back with interest.
Anyway, everyone's life is half chance. Make the best of it and enjoy the ride.
Obviously if one equates happiness to lower amounts of worries and responsibilities than sure.. But that seems kind of.... superficial?
Note: I am not in anyway saying that those who choose to not have kids are superficial, it is their choice -- just as it was mine to have a kid.