The cost and regulation of raising children is much lower overseas. It's rational that the US would be a net consumer of children and some of these other natio

The cost and regulation of raising children is much lower overseas. It's rational that the US would be a net consumer of children and some of these other nations are net producers of children. Comparative advantage. And I do mean consume. These adult immigrants pay taxes into the US without having benefitted from US taxpayer provided K-12 education themselves, and we get to consume their labor without having contributed to their upbringing. It's honestly shocking people have kids at all in the US. Any random chucklhead can call and make up whatever they like to CPS. If you get divorced, you can actually be thrown in debtors prison if you can't come up with a certain amount even if you never even spent close to that amount on the child when you were married (see American dude who was taken hostage while contracted in Iraq, he was imprisoned upon return because he didn't pay CS while being a hostage to terrorists). If you let the kid walk to the park or home you may end up with criminal charges, nevermind both parents need to be busy at work to provide the standard of care CPS requires to not take away the children. And if you're a woman in some states and you find out the kid has debilitating disease you may be forced to go all the way to term knowing you're going to wreck their life and your own.