Kids are expensive. If you can barely pay rent (forget about getting buying something with a mortgage) and living expenses, then how possibly could you raise ch

Kids are expensive. If you can barely pay rent (forget about getting buying something with a mortgage) and living expenses, then how possibly could you raise children? Add to that many people working very long and sometimes uncertain hours. It's a perfectly rational outcome for people to realize they don't have the resources for kids and so they remain childless.