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CMV: Poor people shouldn’t have kids

This is obviously incredibly controversial, but hear me out. I live in South Africa which is one of the most unequal countries in the world, I grew up middle class and started working in unprivileged communities and was blown away by how ill equipped their parents were to parent them and how despite being ravished by poverty by poverty they continued to have more kids. 

I’ve done a bit of research on this and it turn out that poverty affects brain development, children’s health and academic success. Poor children are more likely to witness violence and experience it than their wealthier counterparts. Poor parents are generally uneducated and less likely to support their children’s educational development or give them access to better educational opportunities. Poor parents are under more stress and are generally harsher, inconsistent parents and emotionally distant. And poverty is generally transmitted from generation to generation. 

I worked in two schools one in an underprivileged area, the other in an affluent area. The kids in the underprivileged area were 12, the kids in the affluent area were 6, and when I tell you that the 6 years olds were able to handle conflict amongst themselves adequately with very little adult involvement, they were able to regulate their emotions.years old. The 12 years old always handled conflict through violence, they were unable to regulate their emotions. The difference was stark. 

My mother came from a poor family and she broke the cycle of poverty, so I’m aware there are exceptions to the rule, but I’m also so aware that poverty can lead so many traumatized children, feeling they aren’t in control of their lives, thereby perpetuating the cycle they find themselves in and further entrenching themselves in poverty. So poor people should have kids.
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Do you believe non-existence is preferable to a life in poverty? Do you think most poor people would agree it would be better if they had never been born?

Also, do you think that corporations and governments who exploit the poor have any responsibility for the conditions the poor live in? Or does the responsibility mostly lie with poor people’s parents?