It is very short-sighted view. Those same children are the market of tomorrow. They are the next doctors/lawyers/convicts, the next set of spenders who keep economy going and next set of savers who ‘might’ take care of their old folks.
Imagine that everybody decides not to have kids. In 5 years the elementary schools close, daycare business is bust, in 10 years all the school related jobs are gone. No more new workers entering workforce…so who is going to pay for their unemployment and your social security? Who is going to rent your properties and take your bank loans?
There is a reason why all agrarian cultures place a lot of value in having kids.
Children are not luxury (whining and personal stories about neices notwithstanding), and since the society as a whole benefits from them, the society as a whole should shoulder the responsibility for them too, like giving better tax breaks.
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My point is that children should be *viewed* as a luxury good prior to their arrival. As long as I don’t have to support them, then fine. And as long as the folks that have them don’t bitch and moan about how difficult their life is because they have them, then fine. But when I hear folks talk about how expensive it is to live, and they have children, I just think, “you made your bed… time to lie in it.”[/quote]
I agree.
Once children pop out, it’s the parents reponsibility to take care of them.
Although they are not my kids, I kinda feel the responbility to be nice to my nieces and do little things for them. I want to be the nice uncle. But I kinda resent that responsbility has been foisted on me, not of my own choosing.
I hear plenty of people bitching about having to take care of their kids. And the parents doing the bitching are not poor people.[/quote]
