babies when not financially stable?
By mommiekat830
@mommiekat830 (2)
United States
December 6, 2008 3:59pm CST
i have noticed a recurring trend with my friends...just out of school, little to no money in their bank account, and they are having kids left and right! i dont personally agree with bringing a baby into the world when you are close to broke, but i dont know... opinions???
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6 responses
@samurphy21 (23)
• United States
19 Dec 08
WELL my opinion of the matter is yes you should wait until you are okay in your finances but truely i got pregnant with my first child we did have hardly anything but getting pregnant made us go out and get a good job if it wasn't for katelin coming into this world i dunno were we would be my motto is " everything happens for a reason" and if it wasn't meant to be they wont have kids! but i will add this that some people are irresponsible and should not have kids but i do believe in my motto!
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
6 Dec 08
Yes I think there are way too many babies being brought into this world when the parents can not really afford them, it is sad to see kids having to go without and having to watch the struggle of surviving, people should wait until they can give more of themselves and spend happy time with the kids, kids deserve to be happy in childhood.
@mgmagana (3618)
• United States
6 Dec 08
i agree, when u r financially unstable then having a baby should be the last thing on ur mind, USE PROTECTION, if it happens even while using protection, then that's a different story. I have a friend who may lose her house, n she has 4 kids already, just found out she's like 8 wks preggo. R u kidding me, where r u gonna house these kids n of course they weren't protected.
@Raven7317 (691)
• United States
7 Dec 08
I personally agree with your point... if you can't afford to have the kids, do everything you can to prevent it from happening.
but on the other hand, if a person has gone years and years without getting pregnant, even when they wanted be to be, what of them when it suddenly happens?
My situation is similar... I tried to get pregnant for years... it never happened. We were told I couldn't. We gave up. Things (finances) were optimum when we were trying. One year later, after giving up, I found out I was 4 months along... Things were still okay, but it was a total surprise.
Yeah, we had to adjust our plans... yeah, we had to change our paths in life. But I wouldn't change anything about having him. He's the light in every day to me!
So I agree that if you know you can have a baby, but you know you can't affort it... use protection. But I also want to point out that things change from day to day. One day, while you may be able to afford it and you don't have it, some day soon you may find that you now have it, but can't afford it.
If that makes any sense...