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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if she’s a troll or not but I agree with her. I work at a school full of lower to lower middle class parents in the DC metro area and most of them are doing a terrific job raising kids on not much money. They would think it insane that upper middle class white collar professionals think they can’t have kids. I wonder how many of those professionals have parents with paid off homes and 5 bedrooms but they wouldn’t be willing to move home for a few years to cover costs. When families stick together it’s not hard to make it work if it’s your priority.[/quote]

I don’t think anyone is equating income with being a good parent (or not).  I also don’t know what OP means when they ask “can you afford a kid”.

I come from a very large family where my parents didn’t make much money.  They put food on the table (think school lunch quality), and a roof over our heads with multiple kids to each bedroom.  Paid for a little bit of college, but most of us had to take out loans.  That was it.

My childhood wasn’t terrible…but it wasn’t great.  Parents constantly worried about a layoff or emergency expense that might bankrupt us.  Money (or lack thereof) was constantly talked about.

I certainly didn’t want my kids growing up that way.  I guess my parents could afford constantly scrimping and not being able to pay for any extras…but it was not a pleasant way to grow up.[/quote]

So if it wasn’t a pleasant way to grow up, would you actually forgo having children altogether if you couldn’t do it any better? That’s what people are saying here. Better to have no kids than have them share rooms and eat “school lunch quality” foods.[/quote]

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