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⌈ Secret Post #2686 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Controversial opinions

[grausam]

Why? Because every new child is also a new start, a new opportunity to do better. And/or when they genuinely like their children, they like the company. Quite a few poor people also have problems socializing or want their children to look out for each other.

That's the reasoning I heard from people.
Sure that's often selfish and irresponsible, but getting children is a very basic human thing. And some are poor because they have to pay for a big family- more than four children put a big financial burden on you. It's a fine line, but often big families have just other priorities.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Don't you think the children have some rights too? The right to proper food, to a reasonable share of their parents attention, clothes that aren't completely horrible, a safe place to sleep, access to a reasonably good school, time and space to study for school, access to the occasional nice things that aren't absolutely necessary?

My best friend has a bunch of younger siblings and she always had to take care of them. She always had the most horrible, cheap glasses. She went to a bad school even though she was smart, because "all her family had always gone there". She dropped out of school because her stepfather tried to commit suicide in the kitchen and her little sisters found him and she had to take care of them. She is horribly overweight from the horrible food* her mother fed her, as are all her siblings except for the one who has a eating disorder. Now she works at two horrible, underpaid jobs to make sure that her youngest sister actually does have a chance - gets vegetables sometimes, gets juice instead of soda, and such things. She fights regularly with her mother to make sure the youngest sister can stay at the good school, because the mother doesn't see why anyone should study.

So yeah, I've seen this close up and personal. My best friend never really had a chance at a good life, same as many, many other children whose parents just decide to have kids they can't take care of.

*this is not america, around here healthy food is actually affordable.

Re: Controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

No. Plenty of poor kids grow up happy.