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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if she’s a troll or not but I agree with her. I work at a school full of lower to lower middle class parents in the DC metro area and most of them are doing a terrific job raising kids on not much money. They would think it insane that upper middle class white collar professionals think they can’t have kids. I wonder how many of those professionals have parents with paid off homes and 5 bedrooms but they wouldn’t be willing to move home for a few years to cover costs. [b]When families stick together it’s not hard to make it work if it’s your priority.[/b][/quote]

I'm one of those upper middle class white collar professionals. I grew up in a one bedroom apartment sleeping in the living room with my sister. There's no way my husband and I are going back to a living room with a small child just so we can say we have kids. My husband grew up in a lower middle class household, so his parents are still working as they can't retire. They shouldn't be burdened with childcare.

I guess we could have kids anyways and live like our parents did, but we don't want to. We don't want a lower middle class lifestyle. That's what we mean when we say we can't afford kids.[/quote]

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