> It's not that sort of rational choice. It has to be. It's all nice and rosy to feel blessed by sharing your life with another human being, but it is a lifelo

> It's not that sort of rational choice. It has to be. It's all nice and rosy to feel blessed by sharing your life with another human being, but it is a lifelong commitment, with a good chunk of time and money dedicated to it. If I look at the first link investigating income (https://www.investopedia.com/median-income-by-state-5070640 https://www.investopedia.com/median-income-by-state-5070640), I see that between 9% and 19% people are below or at the poverty rate in the US. Is it rational to have a child in this situation ? Children take focus and abnegation for education. Do you have the mental space for them ? Will you keep your cool at all time and never let anger get the better of you ? Do you have the support structure for helping you, the parent, when things go wrong ? Only people with comfortable lives, who can afford kindergarten, nannies or people-to-whom-you-drop-them-off, all the specific furniture, can say the choice is not that rational. But that's definitely not where most people are.