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I've been wildly fortunate so I say this as an observer and not as a critique, [b]but it does seem people are willing to make fewer sacrifices for children.[/b]
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Societal expectations of what parents should provide, both material and emotional, for their children have greatly increased. Parents are expected to spend more time with their children now than 40 years ago. Except most women work now. Kids are not really allowed to roam free. You can chalk this up to parental decisions, but this is a collective phenomena. So there are more scheduled activities, which require a personal chauffeur. And car seats are required, which require a bigger vehicle. You can't feed kids a turkey sandwich with chips anymore. And college. College is too expensive for kids to pay on their own. Guess who is expected to pay?

Don't tell me parents aren't making sacrifices for their children. Literally everything I do all day long with the exception of 30 minutes in the evening is for my children. You don't know what you are talking about.

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I also have multiple children, so why would I know less of what I am talking about than you are?

You also misread my post, btw.  My claim was that people did not want to make sacrifices, so they stopped having children or at least multiple children.  I never said people who had children were not sacrificing.

I'm sorry things are so difficult for you, and I also happen to agree with you about some of this ivy league preschool syndrome stuff, but your response was kind of a non-sequitur.  [b]And I am not sure how you could possibly conclude whether or not an anonymous internet poster "knows what they are talking about."[/b][/quote]

Because you are making a really big generalization about people sacrificing for their children without any data. College costs have vastly outpaced inflation (this is well documented). The cost of child care has also grown faster than inflation. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/soaring-child-care-costs-squeeze-families-1467415411). The cost of health care has grown much faster than inflation. Yet wages are stagnant (well documented). Parents are sacrificing for their kids. But you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. [/quote]

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