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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by mkirklions on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:30PM (#17295618)
>the alternative to your limited time and attention is never getting to be alive.

Eh, if anyone should have kids, it should be the financially well off and educated people.

Remember that your logic isnt going to stop impoverished people from having 4 kids and welfare.

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by toasterlovin on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:44PM (#17299068)
Yeah, you and I might not want impoverished people from having kids that they can't afford (since guilt will compel us to step in and assist). But I would bet that 99 out of 100 people who grew up in the worst kind of poverty would happily do so again rather than never have existed. So, from the child's point of view it's a good tradeoff.
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