Does wanting kids create justification for wanting middle-class-debt life, or does wanting that life create justification for wanting kids?
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(asking on behalf of those of us who don't want kids, period, whichever way that chicken-egg equation gets bootstrapped)
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I've known several who flip: they decide they want kids after they buy a house and decide it needs kids to finish decor
Romance is a first-world luxury. This pattern is common among people who grew up in precarity and want stability for own sake
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Not all. The bottom third considers itself socially middle-class (officially there is no lower class in the US) w/o security
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wanting kids means wanting to send them to schools which justify debt lyfe.
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I think there are parts of middle class life are justified by children's needs, but not all. House in suburbs? Yes. Steady Income? No.





