Wages have been flat for fifty years, the median house costs seven times the median income, and daycare in my city runs higher than my rent. Then people act baffled that millennials aren't producing babies like it's 1957, when a single factory salary bought a house and a pension. This is an affordability crisis wearing a values costume. Make housing cost three times income again, make one salary enough, and watch what happens to the birth rate. Until then, calling broke people selfish for not having kids they can't afford is just cruelty with extra steps.
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