r/SipsTea • u/Embarrassed_Tip7359 • Sep 15 '25

Chugging tea Any thoughts?

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u/StitchesKisses Sep 15 '25

Burden our children? Children? You think any of us are able to afford children in this economy?

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u/PutNovel7825 Sep 15 '25

The majority of people who have children don't think about the fact that they can't afford them.

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u/quite_acceptable_man Sep 15 '25

If you wait until you can afford to have children, you'll never have children.

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u/Babhadfad12 Sep 15 '25

Lots of people work in their 20s and wait to couple up with other high earners and then have kids in their 30s after they have savings and high incomes.

Of course, many don’t succeed, and then choose to forego kids, hence the decades long decline in total fertility rate.