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1337toothbrush posted...

If people waited until they could afford to have children in this shitty economy, they'd miss child-bearing age. In fact, this is what is happening now. If it weren't for immigration, the population of the United States would be declining. Meanwhile decades ago, high school drop-outs could raise a family in a house that they own on a single income. This is a systemic problem, not one of people not being able to manage money. When money doesn't go as far as it did in the past and wages haven't been keeping up, it's harder to make that money actually work.

The labor force used to be half the size. If more people wanted to be stay at home parents, the earning power for an individual would go up. And it's still very possible to afford children. The economy is good.

You just can't have it all right out of college, especially not if you fucked up and majored in something useless.

Wages have kept up, assuming you're in a good in-demand field. It's really only for unskilled labor that wages are stagnant.

And global population is still growing, so we could do to have fewer births in any case.

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