Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought'
Ilandar@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoAgain, what is your point here? I was not “scorning the mother for wasting money on having kids”; I was mocking her inability to see her life choices as directly impacting her ability to obtain wealth. She claims “money is about luck, nothing else” but acknowledges herself that her decisions have affected her financial situation:
I have seven children: two adults and five kids. We are a sole-income family. My children live with disability and my partner had to leave the workforce to provide full-time care for our kids. …because of my experience with poverty, having kids early, and with HECS debt, I’ve never had the opportunity to save.
Whether incredibly wealthy people have multiple kids has no relevance to whether having any children, let alone 7, impacts your financial situation.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Having a disability is absolutely “luck” as is potentially having kids. No birth control is 100% effective.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
You can’t have a disabled child if you don’t choose to have a child in the first place.
Are you really pretending this woman accidentally found herself pregnant on 7 occasions? And that on each occasion, she accidentally had the child without ever making a choice to keep it instead of pursuing an abortion? And that nowhere, throughout any of these 7 births, was she ever in control of her life to the extent that she could have made choices that led her down an entirely different path?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
why is having kids wasting money, but a medical procedure such as abortion not a waste of money? what value is generated from the abortion?
trk@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I feel like you’re arguing for the sake of arguing. Nothing you’re saying makes sense beyond being contrite.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Firstly, I have never said children are a “waste” of money, I have only said that raising them impacts one’s financial situation.
As for how the two are different: an abortion is a standalone cost. A child is an ongoing cost lasting at least 18 years, quite possibly much longer if one aspires to be a supportive parent.