[quote=Blogstar]No lie, I know a guy who lived at home when he was 30. He does a lot of important things including helping me build the house for his parents. He is always doing something important even when it doesn’t pay. I can’t say more because I don’t want to give away who he is. Happy and health “self-actualized” in Yungian terms. Even people who need to get by with welfare because they have kids even though they are poor. I don’t see anything wrong with that if they raise them well, Maybe the kids will pay it back to the society which they belong, meaning it is societies responsibility to raise kids too. Someone’s got to have kids and ours are going to be too worried about having a big house and portfolio to do it.[/quote]
A couple of things, here. I don’t believe it is “societies’ responsibility to raise kids. Financially, it is solely on the parents. If they can’t afford them, they shouldn’t have them.
I don’t think today’s kids should be “worried” about obtaining a “big house” and amassing a “portfolio” before having kids. A smallish house is fine … for starters and it doesn’t even have to be purchased until their first kid is about to go into first grade (public K isn’t mandatory and can be private and/or supplemented or replaced with Pre-K … also private or Head Start).
And what would be the motivation for a kid who was raised on “welfare” to “pay it back to society” when the parental example set for them while they were growing up was to stay on the public dole as long as possible??
