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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by dh2022 on Friday June 05, 2026 @03:39PM (#48417164)
In my city of Seattle you simply cannot have more than one kid in your twenties. You simply do not have the income to pay the Seattle rent / mortgages and pay daycare for more than one kid at the start of your career. Forget about going to a concert or a restaurant: there is simply no money for it.

Young people in Seattle either live in studios or 1 bedroom apartments, or live with roommates, or with their parents. You cannot raise more than 1 kid this way.

This is the calculus me nu my wife did when we chose to have one kid only. Looking back and seeing how life progressed we made the right choice.

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by SoftTalker on Friday June 05, 2026 @03:54PM (#48417354)
And yet I bet there are thousands of young people in Seattle having kids. These limits are all about what kind of life you want for yourself, and not about what is possible.
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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by pixl97 on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:28PM (#48417758)
I mean, living in a garbage dump is possible, millions of of people do it around the world.

The problem as a country you are doing to disappear demographically if you're choices are near suffering versus having kids.

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by trumpdong on Saturday June 06, 2026 @08:16AM (#48424262)
It's possible, but if you do it in a developed country they'd take you to jail. Just like the law imposed a minimum wage, it also imposed a mandatory minimum standard of living.
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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by Gareth321 on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:33PM (#48418628)
Implied in their comment is that they don’t want to be homeless and hungry, which I think is a fair prerequisite before having children.
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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by dh2022 on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:02PM (#48420656)
The parents at my kid’s daycare were in their late twenties / early thirties, had professional degrees (lawyers, physicians, tech) and only one kid in the daycare.

[edit to add this: I am talking from experience, it seems you are talking from hearsay]

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by asdff on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:27PM (#48419156)
Daycare used to be essentially free when I was growing up. Some workplaces had a little daycare wing. Gyms had them. So many adult sort of third places just had a place to plop your kids with a smattering of toys. Now people are paying $3000 a month so they can go to a spin class.
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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by bombcar on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:02AM (#48421271)
> In my city of Seattle you simply cannot have more than one kid in your twenties.

Explain the details as it's somewhat interesting. Does the second kid cause the woman to explode? Perhaps the gestapo shows up and Anne Frank's the first kid? Does the hospital simply keep the kid and auction it off to the highest bidder? Is it presumed to be owned by Amazon or Microsoft?

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