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Globalization And Inequality

http://bit.ly/14v6ENo

Why Do the People Raising Our Children Earn Poverty Wages?
Women who care for poor kids are often mothers living in poverty themselves.

http://bit.ly/13wpkNb

I got that latter article from the NYTimes, which called it "the poor subsidizing the poor". Don't read the comments, it's all "greedy poor people shouldn't have children", and while "don't have kids you can't afford" is probably sound advice, "punish poor kids for having the audacity to exist" really isn't. Plus, a lot of them more or less explicitly state that they think that before you have a kid you should be prepared to pay for any contingency, no matter how expensive, and that's unreasonable for just about anybody. (And these are the same people who hate the idea of paying for birth control! Whether you think it's right or fair, people really won't just stop having sex on your say-so, folks! Especially if you happen to be a jackass, and it's fair to say that those commenters generally are.)

Comments

[liminaltime]

Ugh, I hate people who say that poor people shouldn't have kids. You can even have kids when you're better off, and then your life can fall apart and you can become poor after they're born. Hell, it happened to me, can't find work, etc. (no kids though, but if I had them I'd probably now be judged as someone who shouldn't have had the audacity to breed).

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I think people who choose to have children (not accidental pregnancies, abuse, circumstances changed, etc, but people who specifically aim to have children) when they clearly can't afford them are irresponsible in exactly the same way as people who choose to buy a new car when they know they can't afford it and will have to go into debt to buy it. I don't see why this viewpoint should mean you hate me.