> Now children are a source of financial cost, not benefit, and thus it doesn't make sense for poor people to have them. Yet it's low-income households who hav

> Now children are a source of financial cost, not benefit, and thus it doesn't make sense for poor people to have them. Yet it's low-income households who have the highest birth rates [0] afaik this isn't unique to the US, in Germany the situation looks similar. It's extremely interesting how this relation between income&fertility doesn't just hold true on a country vs country scale, but also on a domestic level inside these countries, there must be something very fundamental at work here. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...