So I'm not having a child..

[ArchangelMadzz]

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

WC4Life said:

This is not true.

Raising a child does not work that way. Yes, you can stop time, consider the child a simple variable and compare the circumstances and run with it. You cannot however stop time in real world and the child is not a simple variable but infinite. The optimal enviroment for raising a child cannot be subjectively defined. It is not uncommon that couples divorce and go their separate ways after a child is born. Some couples just cannot get over the troubles no matter how rosy their life was prior. What matters is what will happen after the child is born. Talk is cheap, actions count.

I don't know.  Wouldn't being better off financially be almost a universal leg up when having a child?  It can let you focus on raising the child rather than just surviving and possibly neglecting him/her as you try to make ends meet with multiple jobs or crappy 3rd shift jobs that don't pay enough.

It is completely dishonest to say that all things being equal the first scenario on face value is objectively a much superior scenario