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Re:America is substantially reducing poverty among children by droopyEyelids on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:19PM (#28647977)
"Poor people have more children" gets by without enough examination.

It's a weird, tautological statement. Only workin adults provide income to a family unit. Children and the disabled members of a household divide that income.

Given the same income, a family with more dependents is sent into poverty by the mathematics of division.

Re:America is substantially reducing poverty among children by ip26 on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:33PM (#28648520)
Right, so given this a naive observer might imagine the rich would elect to have more children, and the poor fewer…