Is it normal people relying on government handouts shouldn't have kids?

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This is coming from experience, I was raised by my mother who hadn't worked for years, and life was difficult. We had a shitty rental house, my mother could barely afford food/clothes/paying for my school.

Eventually she gave me up to my dad with my younger sister (who made the money problem worse) and my dad was working at the time but he was forced to quit his job to look after us full-time (I was only around 6 years old and my sister 3, the job he had didn't pay much so he had no money to hire a baby sitter and our mum lived to far away)

Life was generally all around shitty, we weren't so poor that we were starving, but my dad could barely afford anything. Whatever we got had to last for years and if it broke/clothes got to small we had to put up with it.

I think the only really valueble thing he could afford to get me was an Ipod many years ago, I remember having that thing for around 6 years until it broke.

Because my parents are poor I'm poor, they couldn't afford any good education/courses/university, jobs are hard to find because I have no experience at all due to my dad not being able to afford petrol to drive me wherever my job might be as a teenager, and now I'm relying on the government to.

is it normal to hate your parents because of it?

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  • mysistersshadow
    7 years ago

    I don't think you should hate them if they were doing all they could. The best you can probly do is avoid making the same decisions they did.

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    • finn
      7 years ago

      Ditto.

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  • Kookulainamus
    7 years ago

    The dole establishes a cycle of poverty. Be sure to buy good condoms.

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  • FORUMiadableFucker0
    7 years ago

    I agree with you.

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  • COCKSUCKERS
    7 years ago

    Thats why the ex feds for the last 8 years bankrupted the country , just to line their pockets.
    They stole inheritors money from January 20 , 2009 until January 20 , 2017.
    They dont know how to handle their finances.
    Big time government has no clue.
    All they did was wasteful spending and they had to raise the debt ceiling numerous times.
    The debt was $ 8.5 trillion when Bush left on January 20 , 2009.
    The debt was $ 20 trillion when Obuma left on January 20 , 2017.
    Obuma accumulated more debt than every other president before him , combined.
    Obuma accumulated $ 11.5 trillion in 8 years.
    More people in poverty , more people on food stamps , more people on welfare , more people out of the labor force , the lowest growth % since the 1940's , the lowest home ownership in 51 years , etc.

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  • _Mehhhh_
    7 years ago

    I actually think it's responsible for everyone, regardless of class, to start thinking about having less children. Our planet is choking, we don't have enough resources, or land to use, to sustain this number of people for very long.

    But in response to this specific post, I don't think it's classist, it's sensible. Children are an economic burden and you have to take that into consideration before you have them. If you can't afford to treat them well, or you simply don't want that economic burden and would rather spend money on yourself (which is how I feel, personally), children aren't for you.

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