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I find the HN comments on an article like this fascinating. So many people that admit to not having kids who think they are experts on what it means or is like to have kids.


I mean, isn't that most non-software HN threads? A bunch of programmers opining loudly about subjects and fields they have not spent much time in?


Prepare for a generation of desperate people when they figure out that they actually wanted to have kids but it's too late.


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Are you suggesting that people with kids will have their kids taking of them when they are old?

If that's true, I have a bridge to sell you...


This is how it traditionally works. My mom and my wife’s mom would also agree.


Thats what the government/retirement savings are for.


Sure, except that’s not always how reality works. My mom and my mother-in-law were both stay at home mothers who got divorced. They have few employment options in the private sector after 20 years of raising children. Turns out the market doesn’t pay much for those skills. Now we have to help support them.


If they never had children they could have saved enough to be set for the rest of their life.




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