As someone fortunate enough to have a well paying job, I can’t imagine ever having a child. The amount of stress on top of my job in addition to the extremely high cost of raising a child would just push me over the edge, and that’s ignoring the fact that my current home can’t really accommodate another (our second bedroom is my office, no clue how we’d make that work since I do my job from there).
I think it’s honestly a combination of two things: a cost of living that continues to increase faster than our wages, and an ever increasing expectation from workplaces on employees. At one point, it was possible (and common) to have a single working member of the family support the other members on their own. These days, you’d have to be pretty much a 1%er to afford that, at least in more urban areas.
As someone fortunate enough to have a well paying job, I can’t imagine ever having a child. The amount of stress on top of my job in addition to the extremely high cost of raising a child would just push me over the edge, and that’s ignoring the fact that my current home can’t really accommodate another (our second bedroom is my office, no clue how we’d make that work since I do my job from there).
I think it’s honestly a combination of two things: a cost of living that continues to increase faster than our wages, and an ever increasing expectation from workplaces on employees. At one point, it was possible (and common) to have a single working member of the family support the other members on their own. These days, you’d have to be pretty much a 1%er to afford that, at least in more urban areas.