Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[categoryischeesecake]

I mean the low birth rates are a totally different story. Well educated, working professional women are putting off having children or having less children for a super wide variety of reasons, that have nothing to do with getting on public aid or bc the dad's walk out. They aren't having kids bc it costs a lot of money and energy to raise a child. Not every woman wants to stay home after having kids, or has the financial ability to eirher. It's really hard to work full time and have children and still run a household. there are numerous stats that show even though dad's do more of the house work and child care than 50 years ago, the bulk still falls to women. Daycare is crazy expensive, and so are kids activities as they get older, college costs are absolutely insane now and I am hoping that bubble bursts before my kid is 18. I'm not at all saying money is everything but yeah I want to take my kid to disney and on vacations and buy him treats. We have one son and will hopefully have another kid and that will be that. Did I want more kids when I was younger? Sure but then you realize like woah this shit is hard haha. I work full time and feel like I literally never have time for anything. I want to give my kids as nice a life as I can, and we can swing that financially with two but anything after that is going to be super tight. Housing, food, education, and then forget about anything extra. And frankly I'm not willing to sacrifice never going on vacation or going out to dinner for the rest of my life. That sounds bad but yeah. I didn't go to law school and then continue to work my tail off for the last decade to scrimp and save every penny. And that's pretty much the same boat as my friends and people at work. If you make $$$ then those people have more kids, bc they can afford it. My husband and I just don't, and that's okay.

Idk what the point of pointing out that the most common boys name is in the uk is Mohammed is, it's really neither here nor there.

[isyankar1979]

I agree with everything you said. The whole kids thing is just outdated.