[Harrison Bergeron]

hunyb: "...tremendous debt and both work full time jobs..."

koba: "A lot of work for potentially little reward."

Yeah. No bitterness there.

[koba]

No...I'm no bitter about anything. In India my extended family runs to 500 people and here it is 50 people. I was trying to give reasons why some people may not want to have children in this sociey. In India these questions rarely come up because of the diferent social conditions, some of which I outlined in my original post. American society is not like Indian society so therefore the "reward" parents get from children in India may not be the same one parents would get here. There family attachements are strong and life-long, here they can become more transient. Therefore, here, even if a parent does the "work" part of raising a child, he will probably not get much of the "reward" part, growing old with his son's family instead of, say, in a nursing home, being financially protected by his sons if he needs it, being the most respected member of an extended family, etc.

[hunyb]

Not bitter.........POOR!