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Re:Why poor people make poor decisions by daenz on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:17PM (#22300211)
Future mothers and fathers should exercise common sense to have a child only with a good partner. That's who that message is for, not the child.
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Re:Why poor people make poor decisions by awb on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:22PM (#22300272)
If love was rational but it's filled with emotion. There are also plenty of partners above the poverty line that leave their families.

I'm not sure we'll ever get to a point where people don't make mistakes with important decisions.

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Re:Why poor people make poor decisions by moralestapia on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:24PM (#22300306)
This point comes out from time to time, I do not agree with it at all.

If history has showed us something, is that great people come from all sorts of backgrounds and situations, and that includes all sorts of families of course!

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Re:Why poor people make poor decisions by homonculus1 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:22PM (#22300989)
You can't generalize heuristics by looking only at outliers.
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Re:Why poor people make poor decisions by metalliqaz on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:25PM (#22300318)
lol, good luck with that.

Even if a person made that decision, "nature uh uh finds a way".

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