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Instead of asking why poor people have children, we should instead ask why so many people in the U.S. are poor. Remember, people who survive solely on welfare are not the majority of the poor. The majority of poor people have jobs--sometimes more than one job. Why is okay that in the wealthiest country on earth, so many people can work and still be poor?
We would do well to stop paying so much attention to the bad decision poor people make and pay more attention o why so many people are put in a position where they have to make those decisions in the first place.
Yes, it is wrong to bring kids into the world you can't support yourself and then lay the burden on the other taxpayers to provide for them via our taxes!
Morally I can't say since they are supported by society ;mostly better than past. But the world has changed and a large number of children are not necessary a advantage financially for family unit like the past.
Seems pretty immoral, greedy and selfish to live your life with the idea that everyone else will support you when you deliberately and knowingly make choices you can't afford.
Lots of people I know have lots of children but make very little money. When I asked them why they had so many children when neither the mother or father made much money, they basically told me that money and income should not be a consideration when deciding how large your family is. They say children are a gift from God and if the children are born everyone should welcome them to the world and society will help support them. They believe that even though they are poor financially they have just as much right to bring lots of babies into the world as someone who is rich.
If you are parents would you agree that society (taxpayers) have a obligation to help bring up your children because our country needs a younger generation from all kinds of people (rich and poor)? Would your financial situation impact your decision to have a larger family? In other words, should only rich parents be able to have a very large family?
(* The other side would say that it is wrong to have babies if they know the taxpayer is going to support them)
With that mindset, their church can help support the children they can not afford. NOT the taxpayers. This country needs people that take responsibility for their own actions, and that includes the financial aspect, short of a tragedy.
There was a time when folks had large families partly because not knowing any better, but also because they were farmers and needed the extra hands. Medically, not all of their offspring even lived to the age of 18. Now, with the advancement of medicine and only one percent involved in farming (at least here in the US), there is no excuse to have a large family if you can not afford to care for them.
We don't need any more dumb people in the world which you would have to be, to have a large family you can not afford.
It's more than that. Since time began, people have been having children they cannot reasonably expect to feed , let alone shelter or otherwise support. The bible is full of the " be fruitful and multiply" thing. It also calls for rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. But that's another story for another thread.
Generally speaking, life expectancy is lower in those areas with high birthrates. The lack of jobs, services, government aid, education and so on has done nothing to cause most people from having as many children as possible.
Producing children is viewed as the primary purpose/obligation of life.
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