[ealgeone]

It's not so much the cost of kids. It was the shift from an agrarian based economy to a manufacturing and now a service/info based economy.

When we had farms you needed hands to make it work...hence a lot of kids..hopefully boys as they are stronger than girls.

[Regulator]

That’s true, but it goes even further: kids are now a liability, not an asset like being future labor on the farm.

That of course is short sighted: even kids you have to spend tons of money on to educate them become workers who prop up the social welfare ponzi schemes. But if you’re White, that spending is enormous: no college subsidies for you.

So unless you aren’t going to worry about things like getting a useful degree, you have to consider the future costs. And they’re considerable.