This. If you don’t have kids there are basically no support systems to start a family. Wages aren’t high enough and it looks like a daunting task. But if you have kids, suddenly you can qualify for food stamps and assistance(which is good). The system is basically set up to help prevent you from failing once you’ve already done it, but not to set you up to do it successfully beforehand. To have kids, you basically have to say “fuck it, we’ll just figure it out”. A lot of people aren’t willing to take that risk.
This. If you don’t have kids there are basically no support systems to start a family. Wages aren’t high enough and it looks like a daunting task. But if you have kids, suddenly you can qualify for food stamps and assistance(which is good). The system is basically set up to help prevent you from failing once you’ve already done it, but not to set you up to do it successfully beforehand. To have kids, you basically have to say “fuck it, we’ll just figure it out”. A lot of people aren’t willing to take that risk.
I wouldn’t bet on that being a sure thing in a couple of months/years :)
neither is medicaid/medicare, republicans are so dependant on too.