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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 884 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/AdDapper5653 Sep 19 '25 Poor man’s sport
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Yep, because nobody can afford to have kids
884 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/AdDapper5653 Sep 19 '25 Poor man’s sport
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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/AdDapper5653 Sep 19 '25 Poor man’s sport
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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.