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If you intend to send your child to college then the cost per child is very high. If you don't then the marginal cost per child is very low. Another considerati
by VladimirIvanov 7y ago
If you intend to send your child to college then the cost per child is very high. If you don't then the marginal cost per child is very low. Another consideration is whether the mother works and if it's possible for her to keep taking time from work every few years to have additional children. One thing I notice about large families is that they usually do not pay for their children's college education.
TLDR - marginal cost per child increases in developed countries.
- golemiprague 7y agoCollege is much less expensive in most European countries and still the birth rate there is smaller than the US, so it is nothing to do with the cost of college per se, it is just that middle class women are now serving their corporate masters and can't raise kids. Unemployed lower class women tend to bring much more kids to the world even though they got much less money to support them. The feminist push to get women into the workforce didn't improve family life or wealth, it just made everything more expensive and much harder, on top of that countries have to bring labourers immigrants to do all those valuable jobs women used to do at home, cooking, cleaning, laundry, caring for the old, baby sitting etc. So that strains the system even more.