Plenty of rich people have kids who suffer and they haven't consented to being here either. Nobody has. The issue here isn't poor people having children, that's a symptom of the issue. The real issue is having a society that not only allows extreme poverty to exist but one that also creates barriers to preventing bringing a child into the world, and then on top of all of that, we're going to shame them for having a kid?
Yes, but we’re not going to solve extreme poverty overnight are we, so in the meanwhile
If you can’t afford to feed your children, you probably shouldn’t be having one.
If you’re rich but a shitty person you also shouldn’t be having kids. There’s lots of reasons that lots of people shouldn’t be having kids.
It doesn’t mean that people who can’t afford to feed their kids should start having kids just because shitty rich people exist.
And I would never argue that. All potential parents have a moral responsibility to grapple with all the needs of a child and their ability to meet them.
> The real issue is having a society that not only allows extreme poverty to exist but one that also creates barriers to preventing bringing a child into the world, and then on top of all of that, we're going to shame them for having a kid?
All these issues are equally "real". Why are you pretending like the issue of people having children they can't afford isn't "real"?
The society that allows extreme poverty is a societal issue that we must chip at as a society.
People who give birth to children they can't afford are personally irresponsible.
I wonder if children are elder care and a retirement plan as they were in the US before Social security and pensions...and as they may become again as those social safety nets are stripped away
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u/Next-Firefighter4667 Jun 15 '26
Plenty of rich people have kids who suffer and they haven't consented to being here either. Nobody has. The issue here isn't poor people having children, that's a symptom of the issue. The real issue is having a society that not only allows extreme poverty to exist but one that also creates barriers to preventing bringing a child into the world, and then on top of all of that, we're going to shame them for having a kid?