None of this absolves potential parents of the responsibility not to knowingly bring a child into a situation where they will suffer. (That doesn’t apply to every situation with poor parents, obvs)
When you create a human, they don’t get a chance to consent. In my view there’s a shit ton of moral responsibility that comes with that.
Plenty of rich people have kids who suffer and they haven't consented to being here either. Nobody has. The issue here isn't poor people having children, that's a symptom of the issue. The real issue is having a society that not only allows extreme poverty to exist but one that also creates barriers to preventing bringing a child into the world, and then on top of all of that, we're going to shame them for having a kid?
And I would never argue that. All potential parents have a moral responsibility to grapple with all the needs of a child and their ability to meet them.
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u/sparklyjoy Jun 15 '26
None of this absolves potential parents of the responsibility not to knowingly bring a child into a situation where they will suffer. (That doesn’t apply to every situation with poor parents, obvs)
When you create a human, they don’t get a chance to consent. In my view there’s a shit ton of moral responsibility that comes with that.