> where raising a child requires sacrifices much greater than it does in the West Does it? I would argue that, in societies where a woman is not expected to w

> where raising a child requires sacrifices much greater than it does in the West Does it? I would argue that, in societies where a woman is not expected to work anyway (either due to cultural limitations or lack of jobs or both), the relative sacrifice required to raise a child is less than in the West. Add to that that it's more common in those societies to have multi-generational households, with readily available (and also jobless) grandparents. The expectations of what should be provided to a child are also much smaller, for better or for worse.