Sounds to me a like a classic consequence of "pro-life until born". If you don't know how to pay for health insurance and college of a prospective kid, how are

Sounds to me a like a classic consequence of "pro-life until born". If you don't know how to pay for health insurance and college of a prospective kid, how are you supposed to have more of them? Economically speaking, I think it's interesting (for various definitions of interesting) how little value the U.S. as a society puts on future educated citizens, and by now this form of shortsightedness is really starting to show. Because, if you really zoom out, everything you invest into kids will come back 30 years later. Most other western societies (and even "evil" China) have realized that investing into childcare, education, youth programs, financial support for parents and and kids' healthcare is really the ultimate societal index fund. Compare that to the US, where children are seen as a personal luxury that you have to afford.