The idea is to provide a better life to your kids than you had, otherwise what was the point in subjecting a child to a lesser life. That's what people complain about now, boomers had it better (financially).
You’re telling me the people having “10 kids during the Great Depression” were doing it because they thought their kids would have a better life than themselves during the worst economic period in America?
Nothing more selfish than subjecting 10 of your own children to poverty in the financial crisis because you didn't want to stop you from being responsible.
Okay but the kids born during the Great Depression did live a better lives than their parents (New Deal policies, post war boom, 50s America) so I don’t see what your point is.
Did they know that was going to be the case when they had the kids? Absolutely not. Similarly, who is to say kids born now will have a better future? Maybe they will, but we can't be sure of that.
Okay so then the whole “having kids to give them a better life than us” thing doesn’t make sense because you’re saying there’s no way to know whether they will have a better or worse life.
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u/SwedishFlopper 3d ago
If the economy was better, I'd consider it.