I'm not really doing more than saying there is a good argument against it. It's like education funding - I don't need it (I don't have kids) but I don't mind having my tax dollars pay for it. At the same time, I have to admit that there are strong arguments against it.
I have been lucky, but I've also worked my ass off. I'm not so bad that I take full credit for my situation - I have luck and a middle-class background in my favor. I chill to think where I would be had I been raised in SE DC and poor. My same efforts would undoubtedly leave different results.
Still, at all stages of my life I have lived beneath my means. If I couldn't afford kids, I wouldn't have them - it's as simple as that. I refuse to concede that kids just happen - hell that's one of the reasons I support abortion rights, that you should only have kids when you chose to. I do think that kids should be a choice, and I don't like supporting people who rely on people who make poor choices. You make some good arguments, but if conceding to all of them encourages a system in which no one is held accountable for failure in planning.
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I have been lucky, but I've also worked my ass off. I'm not so bad that I take full credit for my situation - I have luck and a middle-class background in my favor. I chill to think where I would be had I been raised in SE DC and poor. My same efforts would undoubtedly leave different results.
Still, at all stages of my life I have lived beneath my means. If I couldn't afford kids, I wouldn't have them - it's as simple as that. I refuse to concede that kids just happen - hell that's one of the reasons I support abortion rights, that you should only have kids when you chose to. I do think that kids should be a choice, and I don't like supporting people who rely on people who make poor choices. You make some good arguments, but if conceding to all of them encourages a system in which no one is held accountable for failure in planning.