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So you can barely afford your own needs and have no savings, but you decide to have a child?.. No offense, I'm just curious about your thinking and priorities.
by grishka 4y ago
So you can barely afford your own needs and have no savings, but you decide to have a child?.. No offense, I'm just curious about your thinking and priorities.
- asoneth 4y agoThe person you are replying to had a job (likely in tech), a house, a car, and a chance at promotion when the child was conceived. That seems like a better position than most. If your implied threshold for conceiving a child is that you must have acquired all of these things plus enough savings to weather unexpected medical events and extended job loss then that seems like a threshold that the majority of couples will not reach during their childbearing years.
- Sakos 4y agoThis is the biggest reason why people aren't having kids in the US and much of the West. Nobody actually can afford it anymore.
- nocsi 4y agoUsually having a child in a capitalist society would humble somebody. At least instead of money, they’ll have plenty of time to spend with their child