@return2ozma to A Boring Dystopia • 6 months agoChild care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’www.marketwatch.commessage-square30arrow-up1202arrow-down13cross-posted to: news
arrow-up1199arrow-down1external-linkChild care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’www.marketwatch.com@return2ozma to A Boring Dystopia • 6 months agomessage-square30cross-posted to: news
minus-squareMelkathlinkfedilink-6•6 months agoI stopped at the first sentence. Every child is a choice. Condoms, pills, vascetomies, abortions. If your state is cracking down, the next one over isn’t. Fill a backpack with underwear and a toothbrush and start your new life. I reject your “I just had no choice but to make crotchfruit” argument with absolutely every fiber of my being.
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoThen you don’t understand the complex reality in favor of a simplistic view. If that’s what you need to do to cope in what is, granted, a terrifying reality, then you do you. But I cannot follow. Do what you will.
I stopped at the first sentence.
Every child is a choice.
Condoms, pills, vascetomies, abortions.
If your state is cracking down, the next one over isn’t.
Fill a backpack with underwear and a toothbrush and start your new life.
I reject your “I just had no choice but to make crotchfruit” argument with absolutely every fiber of my being.
Then you don’t understand the complex reality in favor of a simplistic view. If that’s what you need to do to cope in what is, granted, a terrifying reality, then you do you. But I cannot follow. Do what you will.