Children are definitely a vote of optimism in the future, but… in a society where many are mired in poverty, with few job prospects, and those with minimum wage, where child care is costly, and often unavailable, where health care coverage is spotty, and often care isn’t available, where schools are substandard, and interest in improving them seemingly non-existent, where food support is poor and begrudged, where maternal and fetal mortality rates vie to be on a par with some of the poorest nations on earth, is it any wonder our fertility rate will not sustain us as a nation?
And that's what I love about the South
Thank God for small towns and families having children.
Children are definitely a vote of optimism in the future, but… in a society where many are mired in poverty, with few job prospects, and those with minimum wage, where child care is costly, and often unavailable, where health care coverage is spotty, and often care isn’t available, where schools are substandard, and interest in improving them seemingly non-existent, where food support is poor and begrudged, where maternal and fetal mortality rates vie to be on a par with some of the poorest nations on earth, is it any wonder our fertility rate will not sustain us as a nation?