PS: The point here is NOT that poor people shouldn’t have kids, it’s that no one should be having kids without having the basics of childcare covered, which necessitates widespread systemic, societal, and economic change so that no parent needs to worry about those basics, and kids can grow up in secure, healthy environments. I completely forgot to mention this when I originally posted it, and that’s my bad.
Exactly!
They act as if their situation is the norm.
My guy… my mom was homeless when I was born.
I hafd to share a bed with my brother and mom for years. And then when my mom FINALLY got a job that she could usee to support us she had to work LOOONG ass fuck hours at a retirement home so she would always come back late. And my dad was and still is disabled so he definitely could not look after us. My grandparents had already died.
And the thing is I grew up in FUCKING canada my guy. yes .canada. canada obviously has ine of the best quality of life ratings on the planet.
…there aree people all over the Global South who were in my same position as when I was born who had it WAAAAAY worse than I did or ever will growing up . Id bet that mostt ccountries in the Global South dont even have materrnity leave. Heck there are probably people all over the Global South who deep into their 40s STILL have to all share the same small apartment and same bed with their parents and siblings.
Even when I worked 60 hour work weeks I STIL L couldnt afford my own tiny apartment let alone afford to take care of a child . Most labour hours worked these days are worked in the Global South so I dont even want to imagine what ttype of situation the people there are stuck in when they try to afford their own place lol. My parents alreaydy told me that if I accidentally knocked up any chick that child would be our responsibility only , financially and mentally. I and that lady would have to pay for that child and raise it ourselves . NOBODY would come to save us unless we gave it up to adoption.
And then youre telling me or these people or that they or I should have children in a fucked up crapitalistic world like this? HAHAHAHAHHAHA!
Situations like @Seppo’s are not the norm in most places lol.