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Re:Millions of Americans Get Wages Garnished Over Credit Car... by zo1 on Monday September 15, 2014 @11:52AM (#8319563)
I'm not saying that you should have X amount of money in order to have kids. The statement is "you should have enough money to enable you to take care of your kids into adulthood, because doing so otherwise is negligent". It's not a matter of money, but about lack of negligence and burden.
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Re:Millions of Americans Get Wages Garnished Over Credit Car... by smtddr on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:32PM (#8320527)
>>you should have enough money to enable you to take care of your kids into adulthood, because doing so otherwise is negligent

I would phrase this as "Society should be structured such that money isn't a concern because there is a safety net for everyone to be caught in aside from the extreme cases like say that "octo-mom"[1] situation.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadya_Suleman

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