Public Service Announcement
Dana provides a timely public service announcement for those who don’t quite know how to respond appropriately to news of a pregnancy. “Oh no!� is definitely right out as a reaction, as is anything that amounts to the same thing in more syllables.
One thing she left out is the obvious response to people who think you are having too many kids. Who do you think is going to pay all that social security? Well, up until the point when it collapses under the weight of current and near future retirees.
Hey, there’s a reason the government so encourages children! With just one, and no house, my taxes on an above average income dropped almost to nothing. Well, except for the several thousand in social security taxes that don’t go down for anything. Uncle Sam needs all those kids to keep the scheme going, at least until the current crop of politicians are safely retired from protecting their tenure in office, leaving others to toss the ultimate entitlement hot potato until it drops, splattering on the floor of the real world.
Anyway, go read Dana’s post. It’s funny without digressing into the intergenerational politics of reproduction and wealth transfer. Hormonal, too. Deb knows all about hormonal. Which means so do I.
And people with extra kids make up for women like me who never married and had kids. The correct number of kids to have is whatever works for the couple in question. Somone saying, “Oh no!” just floors me.
Posted by Ith on 06/25 at 02:42 PM
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