Only a fifth of Canadians younger than 50 plan on having kids: Poll
torontosun.com
A new Angus Reid poll found only 21% of Canadian adults younger than 50 say they are definitely going to have at least one child.
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Only a fifth of Canadians younger than 50 plan on having kids

    That’s sustainable as long as those 1 in 5 Canadians who do have a kid each have on average at least 10 kids.

    The poll found 51% say it is “not their responsibility” to fund other people’s childcare, with the most likely group to say this are those who have raised children to the age of 18 or older, where the proportion rises to 59%.

    While I’ve got sympathy for that position, the flip side of that is that it’s taxes from those kids who will be paying for pension, medical care, and so forth of people who don’t have kids.

    So if you don’t want to pay for someone else’s kids, it does seem a bit unfair that their kids should pay for your old age. I mean, it required a lot of time and work and money on the part of people who did have kids to raise that kid.

    The social welfare model in most countries, as things stand, is rather loaded against people who have kids.

    • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
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      12 days ago

      But those children will have their education and esrly healthcare paid for by the people they eventually pay for the retirement and healthcare of