[SoftTalker]

And yet I bet there are thousands of young people in Seattle having kids. These limits are all about what kind of life you want for yourself, and not about what is possible.

[Gareth321]

Implied in their comment is that they don’t want to be homeless and hungry, which I think is a fair prerequisite before having children.

[dh2022]

The parents at my kid’s daycare were in their late twenties / early thirties, had professional degrees (lawyers, physicians, tech) and only one kid in the daycare.

[edit to add this: I am talking from experience, it seems you are talking from hearsay]

[pixl97]

I mean, living in a garbage dump is possible, millions of of people do it around the world.

The problem as a country you are doing to disappear demographically if you're choices are near suffering versus having kids.

[trumpdong]

It's possible, but if you do it in a developed country they'd take you to jail. Just like the law imposed a minimum wage, it also imposed a mandatory minimum standard of living.