re: "Why aren't people having kids anymore?"

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I'd say requiring 500k a year to be 'happy" is retarded.

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happy can mean a lot. That is a general term


mortgage with taxes/insurance on 420k (average home price these days): $3,630

daycare 2 kids: $2400 (based on the average daycare costs)

that's 60k a year for a family of 4 in fixed cost. That is before food, car notes, ect

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Why aren't people having kids anymore

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There’s a lot of reasons. I dont think divorce rate is even near the top. A household with two working parents has less available time to spend raising a handful of children. Every cost associated with raising children has increased dramatically.

Is it better to spend time and resources available to give 100% to two kids or be spread more thin with 4-5? To each their own.

That’s just taking into account two parent households. I cant imagine the stress for a solo parent.

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We’ve gotten to this place where corporations lobby for food stamps and welfare because in theory they pop out kids and keep the consumer population high but the welfare kids steal everything and the increased cost to producing people now keeps producers from having kids


Idk basically the government is retarded

A set of great tits can break a weak man pretty easy.

The reason I never had kids is because of lack or job security in today's economy. Many don't want to raise a kid in this deteriorating society that won't have much to offer in the future. Even oil and gas, as somebody posted, pays good, but that won't matter if you are laid off 6 months out of the year. I grew up in the 80's seeing many of my friend's fathers being forced to travel all over the country to find work in the plants. Many were union, and the unions here died from legislation passed by Edwin Edwards. Many people's fathers were barely even able to participate in raising their own kids, because they were always gone.

It's also strange that such a large number of young people are taking viagra today, and have little interest in sex. This would make me wonder if some type of population control is taking place that we don't know about.

Worst mistake in the world to miss out on those chaps. They can be an expensive pain in the arse, but if they love you it's all worth it

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Shitty arse court and judge and judicial system. It’s not his fault, nor the fault of the marriage or kids. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime here

You can ask the women about that. I’m ready to procreate whenever they are.