“Some of us wished for kids and couldn’t afford to have them.”
Honestly I don’t see how anyone could not afford to have kids, if people in 3rd world country’s can afford to have kids. I don’t see why any American couldn’t. It doesn’t have to be perfect, they don’t have to have all the toys in the world, to exist in itself with parents is perhaps in itself the greatest price.
One wishes to provide one’s children a higher standard of living than one had. I could not do that.