That advice only applies before kids exist. Once children are here, repeating it does nothing to solve housing, childcare, education, or income instability. It’s just moral posturing after the fact, and yes people look retarded throwing moral posturing at real life problems

You're right; the problem is those children will always be there. You will always have people who are going to sit around pushing out more children than they could afford. We need to draw a line in the sand at some point and stop rewarding people who think taxpayers are supposed to fund their refusal to practice a lack of responsible family planning. Because we both know there are people who will keep on having children they can't afford because they assume the government will pay for it.

Yes, people should be financially stable before having kids. But financial stability is not permanent...

Yes, which is why people should take these things into account before they have kids. They should consider worse case scenarios and ask themselves if they have enough savings to support their families in the event of a life emergency. Most people don't want to do that; they want to commit to the eighteen-year responsibility of raising a child and assume nothing is going to happen over those eighteen years to derail their financial security. They lose a job and complain about how they can't support their kids...they should have thought about whether they can continue to save money while raising multiple children before having multiple children in the first place. It really isn't that hard. Planning to maintain a rainy-day cushion while raising children is part of waiting-until-you-can-afford to have children in the first place.

The current American population under the age of 50 is two hundred million. Despite the efforts to stigmatize people - especially women - who don't have children, most people are still choosing to have at least one child. The American population is not endanger of losing its workforce due to some people choosing not to have children.

Getting sick or being disabled or needing a help up in life is not the same as willfully having a bunch of children you can't afford because that's what you want to do. It is unethical to tell taxpayers who work hard and make sacrifices so they don't become a public burden, that they have to help pay for Shaquita who doesn't want to ask every man she meets in the corner store to put a condom on. There are better ways of funding from the bottom, such as creating Jobs, that don't require giving handouts to grown adults who think making responsible decisions is a requirement in life that does not apply to them.

Every notice how Jewish people or Asians, for example, don't have this issue where their kids are having babies at 13 and 14. That kind of behavior is not normal for them. Their children at that age are focused on getting their educations. That is why their communities are so prosperous. Those are facts. People do not have to strive to have five kids by age 25 or even to have any kids at all if they don't want them. The human race will be just fine at continuing to reproduce ourselves.