Misstalia said:
" feel as though many people blindly have kids thinking it will fall into place but it never does. Our tax dollars surely pay for some of this..I'm not complaining I am a liberal, but I wish people would be smarter, and not live in denial."
Well, as someone who has chosen not to have children, partly due to financial concerns, I AM complaining. We have now chosen to subsidize this class of people who wade around in the lower income bracket with the help of gov't programs as a way of life for decades. I hear about "the poor" all the time and how we can't cut spending on programs that serve them. Ahem, and WHY are they poor? For all the reasons and bad choices outlined in the posts above, as well as a host of others. As a woman who has taken up the responsibility for my own life and reproduction so as not to burden others and myself unduly, I'm truly at a loss to have any sympathy for those who choose to do the same.
I think we have forgotten that in the vast majority of cases, pregnancy is OPTIONAL and birth control is CHEAP. A woman is only trapped by motherhood if she becomes pregnant.
