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Basically, kids are expensive little bastards to raise properly without state assistance and to be honest, it's pretty rough as a couple to survive on one income and who wants to have them in childcare (very expensive) all the time up until they're school age. Overall and I don't mean to complain, but it's very hard in the workforce to have that time off to do it all.
Not really taking shots here, but the results of bad parenting with a single parent or both parents struggling financially (it creates a stressful environment), the consequences of unwanted children and how they end up growing up in the world.
There's only so much we can do to mitigate most of those things, but for anyone who's educated, honest and hard working, we just simply want them to be happy, spend time with them and hope they end up in the world knowing they got the best chance we could give them and where loved as the circumstances dictated.
If that's not available
The kids don't eventuate.
I grew up unwanted to a working professional and at the time, single mother. Most of my early years was spent being desperately unhappy for all sorts of reasons as a result and it took a bit to get a come to terms with. While I think I turned out alright and comparatively successful in life, it's not something I think I could willingly inflict on my own child if there was an alternative.
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