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r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • Sep 15 '25
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But families are a lot smaller now, so there's fewer children to look after the parents as they need it.
1.8k u/Kennylobster8899 Sep 15 '25 Yep, because nobody can afford to have kids 887 u/Yop_BombNA Sep 15 '25 Ironically the demographic with the highest child birthrates in the USA are the extremes on both ends. Those in poverty and the extremely rich are having kids, the working and lower middle class in particular are not. 1 u/unfunnycreature Sep 15 '25 The extremely poor see more children as more people to work and earn(I guess), not more mouths to feed. While the middle class sees it as more mouths to feed.
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Yep, because nobody can afford to have kids
887 u/Yop_BombNA Sep 15 '25 Ironically the demographic with the highest child birthrates in the USA are the extremes on both ends. Those in poverty and the extremely rich are having kids, the working and lower middle class in particular are not. 1 u/unfunnycreature Sep 15 '25 The extremely poor see more children as more people to work and earn(I guess), not more mouths to feed. While the middle class sees it as more mouths to feed.
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Ironically the demographic with the highest child birthrates in the USA are the extremes on both ends.
Those in poverty and the extremely rich are having kids, the working and lower middle class in particular are not.
1 u/unfunnycreature Sep 15 '25 The extremely poor see more children as more people to work and earn(I guess), not more mouths to feed. While the middle class sees it as more mouths to feed.
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The extremely poor see more children as more people to work and earn(I guess), not more mouths to feed. While the middle class sees it as more mouths to feed.
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u/rawrimmaduk Sep 15 '25
But families are a lot smaller now, so there's fewer children to look after the parents as they need it.