Nobody can afford anything.
It makes no sense to have kids when you can't afford your own existence.
Tax the fucking rich.
It makes no sense to have kids when you can't afford your own existence.
Tax the fucking rich.
Comparing the affordability crisis for the middle class in the US to that of historically poor developing countries as it relates to birth rates is not a very good argument.
It might be somewhat comparable a decade or so from now if we keep letting wealth inequality run away at current rates, but it isn't right now.
Developing countries don’t care less about their infants, how can you think that?
This phenomenon has many many causes, and does not represent any statistic on a parents caring for their kids. It is ludicrous you would think so. Please provide at least one study that shows some form of causality.
Is this a serious question?
The average price of a home in 1950 was like $7,500 - $10,000.
The average price of a home in 2025 is like $410,000 - $530,000
Of all the (generally) rising numbers that factor into the US economy, wages is one of the major things that has risen the least since the 1950s, and especially so since 1980.
Just one data point to illustrate: in 1950, a bottle of Coca-Cola cost 5 cents.