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by im3w1l 1186 days ago
Back then it was poverty with children or poverty without children. Now it's a poor life with children or a rich one without.

I'd postulate that a big reason here is that children have been separated from labor in two ways. The first is that it used to be acceptable to do work while minding children. The second is that children would be used to help out from a fairly young age.