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Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.

What do you mean by "no return"?

We aren’t an agrarian society so children (and the labor they represent on the farm) are not a financial asset, they are a financial liability.

But couldn't they be considered an investment? For possible support (emotional, financial and other) in old age.

In practice? Very much no.

I strongly disagree. Around me I see a huge difference in old people without kids vs. with kids in how they are being taken care of.