Reply #16: if you want to get poor, have a child, if you want to stay poor, have a child [View All]

[pitohui]

i don't know any intelligent people my age or younger, capable of doing math, who had more than one child, and most had zero children, if you have a basic level of intelligence and ability to think ahead, you can figure out that having babies is a losing proposition that costs tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years

and i don't wanna hear from the cheapskate religious crowd that doesn't plan to educate their child and who therefore is in denial that educating a child these days costs probably 100K...if you have a baby and your "plan" is that the child should live their entire life in student loan indentured servitude and lost opportunities because you're too cheap to provide for them then you are not the kind of person whose thoughts i respect

the religious bullshitters claim that children are cheap because THEY'RE cheap and they don't plan to provide for their children fully, of course, life gets in the way when they find themselves hit up for private elementary/high school education costs at the overpriced religious school because they're afraid of the public school

children are a wonderful way to impoverish yourself, it's a double whammy, many women lose their entire investment on their careers when they have children, so there's the lost income over a lifetime, plus the expenses incumbent on feeding, educating, housing the child

there are 7 billion people in the world, we don't need any more, so i suppose it is right for society to punish people who have children but it's a little ridiculous...yes, stop giving tax breaks and other considerations that entice idiots who can't do math to have kids, yes, stop giving tax breaks to religions that entice suggestible morons to keep popping out babies...but jobs should pay enough for someone to have one child anyway, you have to have some new generation coming up, just not all these billions and billions and billions