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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having kids is an emotional choice.  ALWAYS.  Whether you have money or not, whether you are young or old, educated or not, etc.

My daughter has an MBA and let me tell you, she doesn't want kids. Being educated has nothing to do with it!  In fact, I would suggest that the smarter and more educated you are, the less likely you'd want to have kids in this day and age.  I totally don't blame her as I have 2.  Given the current conditions, I would not want kids either and I do not have an MBA!

Who in their right mind wants the childcare, pressures and stress of having kids today, seriously.  It's not about men v women, more about what to do with the kids for so many years.  That's a real no joke reality.  Whether you are a mom or a dad, you're in it.  Balancing a career and parenthood in the US WELL is not even a hard thing to do but almost impossible thing to do.  People do it but it's seriously hard.

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I do think that higher education levels for women do reduce proportion that want children and the desired number of children. It’s a matter of opportunity costs. Women with greater career and professional prospects have more to lose by having kids. Unless you are very wealthy the cost of outside childcare is often a limiting factor for how many kids someone can afford. [/quote]

And this is why affordable childcare and universal PreK and increasing the dependent care FSA (and also making it PER KID) and increasing the childcare tax credit would all help with MC dual-income families. UMC can afford continuous and reliable childcare and they tend to have at least 2, likely 3 kids. Every single couple I know who makes over 350k or has a trust/family money has 3+ kids. 
Instead... we get forced birth.  :roll: [/quote]

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