If you were them facing this problem, what would you have done?
Duh, if I didn't have an spare $400 laying around, I wouldn't have been having even one baby let alone three so it's moot.
Poor parenting starts long before the child is born. It starts when prospective parents fail to pay off the student loans, etc., before discarding the birth control.
The more affordable and effective you can make education, medical expenses, daycare, transportation, and safety concerns, the more likely it is that parents will have to work fewer hours and can focus more on their kids.
Well, yeah, but by the time you address daycare needs or safe neighborhoods, you're merely mitigating the symptom, not solving the problem, and in the process perpetuating by your attitude the problem in others who will also come to think they don't need more than $400 of available cash, a home in a nice neighborhood, and either a family child-care resource or the money to pay for daycare before they produce a kid.
But that would mean I'd have to drive to work for 3hrs everyday
Where did you get the notion that children don't require sacrifices? I know. From the folks who have adopted the notion that employers should be expected to provide two years of maternity leave. |
