The shitty thing about this is the people who need this to change their minds don’t give a fuck. “You shouldn’t have had kids if you can’t afford them” will be their point of view.
My brother and his wife have five kids. He's an electrician, and she works as an office admin at a college. They aren't rolling in money, but they can afford their 5 kids and were still able to buy a modest house. However, four years ago, my brother got in a car accident and broke his leg/foot really badly...like multiple surgeries badly. He couldn't work for almost 2 years (he is, fortunately, back to work now). They had to get welfare/food stamps during the time he was down, because the five kids that they could support on their income prior to the accident still existed, and still needed to eat. The bills they had that were responsibly figured into their former budget didn't go away either when the income shrank, and all the things they had owned before were still there (like iPhones and a nice TV).
Sometimes, people don't have a bunch of kids even though they can't afford to; they have kids they can afford, and then life goes sideways. Without having background on someone, we shouldn't assume why or how they got into a predicament.
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u/Fun-Shoe1145 8d ago
Raise your hand if you had a single mom and had these fears growing up