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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I lived there, I'd be smart enough not to make it worse by having kids.[/quote]

You don't say.

Even poor people want to have children. Even upper-middle-class highly-educated people have unplanned pregnancies.[/quote]
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The difference is that UMC families are making sure their kids get to school every day, on time. [/b] And the difference is that society spends a sh$t ton of money trying to support these women who continue to have kids who they cannot emotionally and financially support.[/quote]

Well, mostly. But you're shifting the goalposts here.

Upper middle-class families are making sure their kids get to school on time every day because they have the economic resources to do so. Poor families do not have these resources -- by definition. That doesn't mean that upper-middle-class parents are good parents and poor parents are bad parents. It means that upper-middle-class parents have more economic resources than poor parents.

So one possible policy approach would be to make sure that poor parents have the economic resources necessary for making sure their kids get to school in time every day.

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Why have people romanticized the poor so much?  I grew up with teen parents, food from the food bank, sleeping on a mattress in the front room, bathing in the kitchen sink, parents then divorced, etc.  Often the poor choices made by these parents in their own lives translate into bad parenting.  More resources will not change that.

I wish society would develop the will to "break the cycle".  We are not doing kids any favors by leaving them in these situations.[/quote]

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