• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    And that everyone’s too damn poor. Babysitter? Not on average wages! No one wants to give up all of their time and money for kids they might not be able to provide for.

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      5 days ago

      There are people giving 100% of their paychecks for childcare and the spouse pays for everything else.

      That is a failure of the US and birth rates won’t improve until that changes.

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      5 days ago

      Being poor has very little to with having children. The poor across the world have more children than the wealthy.

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        4 days ago

        That doesn’t change the motivations of millions of people in the world. You know, the kind of numbers that can produce a massive dip in data…