>Put yourself in the position of your own child, born today. Can you offer them a better start than your parents did you? Wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better. My parents e

>Put yourself in the position of your own child, born today. Can you offer them a better start than your parents did you? Wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better. My parents entered the work force at the tail end of stagflation. They got to pay 18% on their first mortgage in an economy with twice the unemployment of today. That and since we (for the most part) don't count cohabitating women as whores or birth control a sin means I was much more experienced in relationships than my parents were when they had me. My kid is getting a far more stable environment than I did. And I in turn had a more stable childhood than they did because I wasn't raised by WWII vets that coped with PTSD by drinking. And all that doesn't touch on things like if my kid were Gay, transexual, black/brown, had a mental illness, had a disability, or any number of other things society has become much more enlightened on. Or the cleanliness of the air they're breathing, the lack of lead in our paint, and so on.