From the female aspect NO. Simple fact is ECONOMICS, not any other unless you are of a religious sect that promotes high baby producing rates.
Next factor from a woman’s point of view is the toll on a woman’s body. YOU MEN DON’T CARRY THEM 9 MONTHS or take much care of them as babies. With rare exceptions.
But you do have to buy clothes, diapers, food, housing, ins, support their wants and needs for sports, band, dancing, self defense, education etc. Cost over $1 Mil to raise 1 child. Average white family is 2 children just for ECONOMIC reasons. For the average working Joe and Jane Doe.
Writer is a liberal IDIOT! This is not the middle ages where more kids meant a male heir had to survived. Nor were needed to work farms, now machines do that.
>>>From the female aspect NO. Simple fact is ECONOMICS, not any other unless you are of a religious sect that promotes high baby producing rates.<<<
I travel the length and breadth of the City of Chicago and much of the suburbs. The City of Chicago is illuminating in that there are many pedestrians to observe. The City is approximately 1/3 white, 1/3 black and 1/3 Hispanic. In the most affluent areas, which are also mostly white, there are more doggy day cares than anywhere else. I see millenial women out jogging, walking their dogs or just going from A to B with headphones on. What I don’t see frequently are children. The black and other white neighborhoods have relatively few children, but much more than the most prosperous areas. The Hispanic neighborhoods, mostly Mexican, are full of kids. And the mothers tend to be younger. I also shop in a suburb that has some muslim immigrants. They have more babies than any other group I see around here.
I don’t think the Mexicans and Muslim parents look at children as being the burden you paint them to be. And because of that, America is on the fast path to being a majority minority country.
What’s the point of this reply? It’s none other than me, showing my displeasure with the predominant culture. The culture that views children as expensive and as a burden.
This country, via the parents of the baby boomers and prior generations, used to have large families for all demographics. This coupled with the fact that America was significantly less prosperous than it is today, underscores that children being viewed as expensive or a burden is at odds with our past.