PS: The point here is NOT that poor people shouldn’t have kids, it’s that no one should be having kids without having the basics of childcare covered, which necessitates widespread systemic, societal, and economic change so that no parent needs to worry about those basics, and kids can grow up in secure, healthy environments. I completely forgot to mention this when I originally posted it, and that’s my bad.
The issue here is that in a proper society, child care is a societal burden and not just a personal one. Meaning that in a proper society, both the rich and the poor can raise children properly and not let the child suffer.
Imagine a society where only the rich reproduce… That is arguably just as fucked up just in a different way.
“in a proper society”.
Well there’s your problem…
“It is no measure of health to be seen as ‘healthy’ or ‘well-adjusted’ in societies so profoundly sick”
Ah yes blaming victims is the correct course. \s
We, all of us, are society.
We did this, either by action or inaction.
We are the perpetrators and not the victims.