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[quote=Anonymous]How do people not understand that "I can't afford to have kids" doesn't mean "I literally could not pay the bare minimum expenses to keep a child alive?" It means "I can't afford to give a potential child the life and future I believe it deserves."

Yes, of course every single person on this website can "afford" to raise kids. In my EOTR neighborhood people "afford" to raise multiple kids on basically nothing thanks to section 8, SNAP, and WIC, and if they can do it anyone here can too. But that's not a situation most of us would want to put our kids or ourselves into.

Everyone has a line they draw somewhere, a line past which to them it's an acceptable situation to bring life into. For some people that line is just barely above poverty and neglect, for some people that's middling schools in a far out suburb and a horrid commute. For me and my wife we're not willing to bring kids into the world unless we can give them the absolute best life possible - Wilson or better for public schools (or private if possible), opportunities for tutors and travel sports if that's what they desire, summer camps, fully paid college, which means that even though we have a relatively high HHI (~$250K) we "can't afford" kids.

You may say "well that's a ridiculous requirement" but it's just a different place we draw the line than you do. Someone in Ward 8 would probably say the same thing about your line. Someone in Haiti would probably say the same thing about theirs.   [/quote]

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