Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respiratory Illness, and Income
Children are expensive. And it’s not about money. It’s about time and energy and effort and incessant tending and bonding.<p>I honestly think people need counseling and planning before they start to think about starting a family. They need back up plans and contingency strategies.<p>It used to be that we lived in small communal groups and non nuclear families. Usually matriarchal wherein the post menopausal grandmother plays a crucial role in the post reproductive years to give the attention children need.<p>Clearly this system worked. We will be hitting 10 billion by 2050 due to exponential population growth. But the world has changed. Coping with the new resource strapped crowded new world is not by handing over the responsibility of child rearing to the state or the tax payers.<p>There is NO village that will raise YOUR child. It’s time for responsible procreation and talk about such things without fear or shame of being chastised. We can now store our genetic material. People should be given a lot of advice and caution before they want bring children into our future. Responsible parenting must be incentivized and not just procreation in the form of tax breaks and taking over of child rearing by the state. This issue really stresses me and I only see it getting worse.<p>I don’t know why there isn’t enough funding or initiatives to address this.