Why do broke people have kids?

[BlackBats95]

It makes 0 sense to push kids when you can't afford just yourself. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Anonymous]

There are a plethora of different scenarios that a lot of people don't take in to consideration when asking a question such as this. Obviously all situational but it may be something worth considering.. examples: (all personal based or someone I know)

1. Some people do take proper measures to ensure a fetus is not created (birth control- contraceptives). Condoms sometimes fail, so does birth control. I personally have gone through this. 17 years old, on birth control AND using a condom and I still got pregnant. I was against abortion (for myself). I kept the baby. I was 100% broke at this time of my life and admittedly had more help from my mother than a lot of people have and for that I'm thankful. I was able to continue school and establish a career and furthermore, provide for my son- whom is now 12 and thriving.

2. Some people are in inescapable abusive relationships with men/women who force the idea of babies and will do everything in their power (abuse wise) to trap an individual with a child they never wanted/couldn't afford to have. My cousin is a prime example. She got married and soon thereafter her husband started pushing for kids. She wasn't ready, so he started beating and raping her daily. She became pregnant by the product of rape, had her son just months after I had my son and she became pregnant again not even a month later, again, by the product of rape. She went to the police, she filed reports, she even got a PFA and Restraining Order. But the cops did nothing and at that time, abortion was not as easily accessible. At this time you could only be considered for abortion if you could physically prove it was rape OR if there was a medical reason behind needing one. Despite having police reports stating what happened and doctors reports stating that there was physical signs of abuse, they didn't see this as worthy information because she was married to the guy she deemed her abuser and in the end, she wasn't granted an abortion. She pushed for it up until she couldn't legally get one performed. She is broke still because she mentally was never able to get past this abuse, even after escaping her husband (he cheated so she was able to file for divorce without fault). I help her a lot. And despite her being broke, those kids don't crave for anything. She's not on state assistance either.

3. Lastly, since this Roe vs Wade shit, birth control and abortions are hard to get. I'm personally pregnant right now because my birth control and all birth control I can take (kidney disease and my body rejects most meds) is currently off the market and no longer available in my state. My birth control was taken away not even 2 weeks following Roe vs Wade. People in my state have been traveling outside of state lines to have access to birth control and abortions that my state no longer provides.

All things to take in to consideration when asking this question.

[MORPHEUS_12]

Unfortunately, in the US the government rewards Moms for spreading their legs. They get food stamps, and WIC (Women Infants & Children) provides formula and additional nutritional assistance. They can get assistance with rent, housing, utilities, childcare assistance, and the list goes on and on. These people can get up to $1000 a month per child for food stamps. Then when these people file their taxes they can get over $7K refund because of having crotch goblins. My inlaws are elderly and they have food insecurity each month. They only qualify for $23 a month! This proves that someone feels that children are more important. These women who walk into the Department of Social Services office have purses and nails better than I have. They always have the big-ass stereotypical vehicles you would expect to see someone milking the system would drive. This is why I would support mandatory sterilization after your second child if you are on public assistance. It's funny because my husband and I went on a cruise that stopped in Granada. We were shocked at all the abundance of natural food sources that grow on the island. Our guide told us that Granada does not offer any sort of public assistance because the government feels like there are plenty of food sources on the island that will sustain a person. I wish the US would scale back on assistance to these people.

[WhiteSteve]

Just broadly speaking, I’ve come to realize that having any expectations of consistent, personally responsible behavior out of human beings is a fool’s errand. There are just a lot of things in life that we can yell and scream and stomp our feet about until we’re blue in the face, but it will never, ever change, regardless of the consequences for them or for us. Humans are incredibly stupid, selfish, and short-sighted, and I don’t think we’re capable of finding a collective happy medium. We either need to live in complete chaos or under complete behavioral control. I’ve seen enough of this experiment, shut it all down, lmao.

[Staximus]

I always see people with 3 or 4 kids taking the bus. If they can't even afford a car, why the hell are they having 4 kids? Broke people get free healthcare here, you think they would go get the pill or an iud or at least some condoms from 7-11. Women with no money having kids with guys who have no money. And now they have less money. There should be a class in high school health called "how to not make a baby", and part of that class should be a warning to girls to not let some fucking bum get them pregnant.

[NotInterestedSorry]

Maybe they are taking the bus because they suck at driving and didn't get a licence. Also some people just have no interest in driving. My sister had 6 sister and only got her licence for the first time ever at 42. Youtuber Charlotte Dobre is in her 30's and she had no interest in driving until recently. Getting the bus does not always mean you are broke.

[NotInterestedSorry]

I meant 6 kids

[NotInterestedSorry]

Also some people like myself have a licence and a car but I sometimes take my daughter on public transport as some places we visit there is limit parking available or the traffic getting to thise places suck and it's just easier to go by public transport. So maybe you should stop thinking everyone who gets the bus is poor because we are not all poor.

[Staximus]

@NotInterestedSorry I don't know where you are from, but everyone who rides the bus here is either too broke or too drunk to have a car, physically or mentally unfit to drive, or a tourist. Public transportation sucks here.

[Screenwriter]

People have children because they think they should; God deemed that they should be fruitful and multiply and "God" will take care of them and their children. It's not rational, it has to do with faith and religiosity. So, this makes no sense unless you have faith and are religious. It's not based on logic or good sense.

Others have children because they've always wanted them, and again, hope they can manage to take care of them.

Some rely on government assistance to help when they're up against the wall financially, and this assistance, at least, keeps their heads above water.

Others are careless, don't bother to use birth control and take what comes. Again. Not rational or logical. Not based on, how much do I make, how much will it cost to raise these children, or any planning.

I believe this comes from their homes of origin. If their parents acted in this manner, that's the modeling they follow.

People who use birth control, decide on how many children they might be able to afford, plan for their future AND their childrens' futures, had parents who did the same, and parents who were, likely, more financially solvent.

No adults alive today ever planned to or wanted to be broke. But so many factors can fell people: lack of education and financial savvy, illness of themselves or their children, loss of jobs. Overextended credit of many kinds: a mortgage, credit cards, loans.

With some folks, paycheck to paycheck living is all they have. And one problem could stop a paycheck and lead to financial ruin.

[Alli39]

Accident and couldn't/didn't want to get an abortion? They weren't broke when they had the kid? They really love kids and will do whatever it takes to make sure they can have the kid even if they really can't afford it? Lots of reasons.

[CrimsonAngel09]

Because no one ever thinks what can happen after you have sex. People only think of the fun part, not the hard part.

[Agape93]

Because birth control and abortions are often more than what people can afford. Plus some do it for money.

[Nikki1989]

Broke people have been having kids for centuries.

[DextroShade]

People on welfare should be sterilized after their first kid.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you stfu with your broke life rather than putting your loser head in other's

[boggboss]

Because sex is easy and free

[Catguy92]

Birth control fails.

[dolemite58]

cuz they’re too dumb to think ahead

[Anonymous]

State handouts

[CVNT5]

Welfare.

[Anonymous]

Nothing better to do