Exactly. Child credits = Wefare imo.
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Agreed. And the worst part about that nonsense is that lack of money is NOT why people aren’t having kids. The REAL reasons are 3-fold:
1) family court: the fear of having said kids only to be denied a paternity test/lose access due to divorce/have them used against you/etc
2) anti-male bias in jobs and credentialing institutions that deny men the opportunities for growth to impress/earn a woman for a family
3) the breakdown of the village:
This one my wife and I feel the most since I beat the first two issues.
Every job and school or safe neighborhood is 30min to 1hr away from each other… so you need a minivan, which can only hold so many children. You can’t leave them home because kids that used to work paper routes at 9 years old now can’t be legally left alone… so you need either a babysitter or a bigger car. Institutions like fast food joints don’t cater to children anymore, and you aren’t allowed to bring your kids to work. So you ask your mother in law to watch them. But that’s an imposition to the modern generation of grandparents apparently… and they are busy working until they die anyway because inflation and artificial market crashes like the 2008 one stole away their hope of retirement anyway. Etc.
That stuff is why my wife and I stopped at 3. It’s the number she feels like she can handle entirely by herself because she IS ENTIRELY BY HERSELF when I’m at work. But that isn’t how it used to be. Even my wife and I remember communities being small enough to bicycle across and having neighbors and extended family that gave a shit.
Agreed. And the worst part about that nonsense is that lack of money is NOT why people aren’t having kids. The REAL reasons are 3-fold:
1) family court: the fear of having said kids only to be denied a paternity test/lose access due to divorce/have them used against you/etc
2) anti-male bias in jobs and credentialing institutions that deny men the opportunities for growth to impress/earn a woman for a family
3) the breakdown of the village:
This one my wife and I feel the most since I beat the first two issues.
Every job and school or safe neighborhood is 30min to 1hr away from each other… so you need a minivan, which can only hold so many children. You can’t leave them home because kids that used to work paper routes at 9 years old now can’t be legally left alone… so you need either a babysitter or a bigger car. Institutions like fast food joints don’t cater to children anymore, and you aren’t allowed to bring your kids to work. So you ask your mother in law to watch them. But that’s an imposition to the modern generation of grandparents apparently… and they are busy working until they die anyway because inflation and artificial market crashes like the 2008 one stole away their hope of retirement anyway. Etc.
That stuff is why my wife and I stopped at 3. It’s the number she feels like she can handle entirely by herself because she IS ENTIRELY BY HERSELF when I’m at work. But that isn’t how it used to be. Even my wife and I remember communities being small enough to bicycle across and having neighbors and extended family that gave a shit.
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