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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Luckily we can afford daycare, [b]but I know that most of my peers cannot afford 2k a month in daycare and would still make excellent parents.[/b] I think the people who say that you should wait to have children mean that you should wait until out of college/trade school and then married.

The daycare gap is creating a truly unaffordable situation between the haves and the have nots. So many women want to work but aren't able to because their salaries wouldn't pay for daycare, especially once they have two children.[/quote]

Yep.  These are the people who should be encouraged to have children.  The most responsible people are not having kids because they are, well, being responsible.  They would make great parents.  This is another way the middle class is shrinking.  [/quote]

I'm PP above poster responded to, and in no way consider myself irresponsible because I made a working class income when I had a child. I think that's preposterous. And I consider myself a great parent, too![/quote]

Yep. I was just reiterating that the "irresponsible" parents are those who are jobless and unmarried (I have relatives like this), not the ones who just cannot afford daycare. We should not expect everyone to be making 100k in order to become a parent. It's ludicrous to say that if you don't make 100k, you should keep your legs closed and not have kids until you do. Many will obviously never make that, will never make enough to afford daycare and would be great parents. Some of the hardest working and most family oriented people I know only make 50k. I also know lots of deadbeat dads who are off cheating on their wives and families with their affair partners who make 300k. [/quote]

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