re: Freakonomics podcast on marriage and income

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Those issues are brought on at an individual level. Like I said before, it is extremely selfish, reckless and totally irresponsible to bring children into unstable situations. If you are already struggling financially, why would you bring another life into that?

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If you are already struggling financially, you probably aren't making the best decisions in the first place. This shite is a compounding problem.

Also, once you're on government assistance, there is little motivation to pull yourself out of it. There is essentially a wide gap where you're better off not working than going to work and making something. The phaseouts on assistance don't work, but I'm not sure how you fix it either.