“No, I believe that “can’t afford” is often a temporary situation, or something that the parents can change by adjusting their lifestyle, and so it’s not something that everyone should have a cow over all the time.”
My brother and his “wife” have 5 children. They are living off of one minimum wage job and 400 per month in food stamps and whatever they can beg from our parents.
“In a functioning community,”
How many of those do you know of?
“This generally means that at one point, Family A might need help, while at another time, it’s Family B. Or several people have needs, but they are different needs.”
Isn’t this how welfare got started?
I’m not responsible for the nation’s welfare system. I vote against it when I have the opportunity.
Let’s go back to principles. Where in Christianity (or some other belief system, if you subscribe to such) do you find the idea that every family must guarantee that it will be a self-sufficient economic unit, in perpetuity, before the family can have a child?
Christian community, you help each other, in addition there's family and charity.
Government Welfare is no comparison, it's the anti-charity.