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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]QUOTE " No. A high school education will get you a minimum wage job, and a high school education is not "serious less than ideal choices." Both the people I know who work these kind of crappy jobs are in their 30s or 40s without kids and living in apartments. Lower-level office workers or retail managers - so more than minimum wage but not great. They can't afford kids and can't find a decent man for two salaries (though these two salaries, if the guy is also working crap jobs, would put them in an impossible position for day care and college). I guess they are responsible not having kids because they can't afford them. But good god if I try to imagine my life without my kids. I'd rather die. They are my heart and job and reason for existing. I know these two women well."

I would much prefer NOT to have kids than have kids that end up like the ones in the show...or similar.
No money? No kids.
That's how it should be.[/quote]Of course you would and so would I.  The question is whether the kids should be made to pay for their parents' poor decisions.  And if you punish the kids for the parents' decisions you increase the likelihood that the kids will make the same mistakes.  I'm the pp from above who talked about the kid I tutor.  This family had six kids and five of them went through the tutoring program I volunteer with.  Four of them went/are going to college - in part because of their long-term involvement with this program.  But if we say - oh, their mom and dad shouldn't have had six kids, it's their own fault they're in such bad shape, they shouldn't get any help -- well, you're just passing the problem on to the next generation.  Whatever you think of the parents, don't punish the kids for what their parents did.[/quote]

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