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Kids are extremely expensive when you have to raise them to 18 with no return. We should have social security, but for the young.

• brulard 2y ago
  What do you mean by "no return"?
  • whythre 2y ago
    We aren’t an agrarian society so children (and the labor they represent on the farm) are not a financial asset, they are a financial liability.
    • brulard 2y ago
      But couldn't they be considered an investment? For possible support (emotional, financial and other) in old age.
      • rnd0 2y ago
        In practice? Very much no.
        • brulard 2y ago
          I strongly disagree. Around me I see a huge difference in old people without kids vs. with kids in how they are being taken care of.