Please stop deceiving yourself. In a life or death matter, sex is not a priority. Sex is not a priority when you need FOOD. Are you even listening to what you are saying? When people cannot get enough FOOD to eat, when people do not have a safe place to SLEEP, you think SEX should be one of their priorities.

That's why you should have only one, like I have been saying. Noone NEEDS more than one child unless you have an occupation where you can use your children for manual labour like farming.

I'm asking you if you would subject your child to the life of a poor anybody. Nigerian, American, it doesn't make a difference. Are you trying to imply that the life of a poor Nigerian is somehow less enjoyable than the life of a poor American? They are both poor. Same difference.

I didn't say "management", I said "management at the Sprint store". There is a HUGE difference between being an entry level worker at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte, Shell, Ernst&Young, etc and being an entry level worker at the SPRINT STORE.

Don't make general assumptions about my comment. It is basic common…

You not supposed to start family planning WHEN you have a child. You are supposed to start family planning LONG BEFORE you have a child. And being a sales person at Sprint is not a "nice job" that one should be planning to base a family on. Unless she was management at the very least then having two kids when you are…

And as for what can be done, obviously making birth control free and universal is a great idea. I just don't know if giving the political climate of religious people, it is achievable.

Managing your reproductive health IS not having kids you can't afford. Sure people are going to have kids whether we like it or not, but that's on them. You're talking like the kids come strolling out of people's vaginas or something.

If you had read my other comments, you would see that I completely excluded people who were PREVIOUSLY financially stable and had kids then LATER became poor.

If you'd never heard of those things, and you'd never been on vacation outside the United States, then are you really middle class?

I just can't help thinking, that if she didn't have any kids in the first place, she could have just gone to her job interview in peace.

Are you sure it's the same person? This picture looks like a much younger person.

Which is why if you are poor you owe it to yourself to try not to have children until your situation improves

Poverty should never be seen as "a life". It is ALWAYS an emergency condition. People should ALWAYS be actively working towards reducing poverty. Once you start seeing poverty as "your life" how are you ever going to make any moves to get out of it? There needs to always be a plan.

I'm sorry that you're poor, and I'm sorry that you are on welfare. I sincerely hope your circumstances improve soon. However, I ASSURE you. Your life would be significantly worse if in your current situation you decided to have a child. And for every extra child you had in this same dire financial situation, it would…

Yes, people should do their best to avoid having children they cannot afford.

Your friend is stupid. Even if she wanted to have children, she only needed one child. She complained to you that she was having difficulty getting food with ONE child then she proceeded to have another.

Excuse me, how does not having sex equal not dating, not having intimate relationships etc?

Even when she was married, it was not necessary to have three children. Once you have had one child, you honestly have achieved the goal of reproduction. Any extra are optional. And even when she was married, it doesn't seem like her husband was exactly swimming in cash. Neither was she. So what gave her the…

You don't really need an education to know that children are insanely expensive. It's also pretty glaringly obvious that the more people you have to share limited resources with, the more difficult everyone's life will be.

Gosh, please learn to stick to the subject okay? You don't know anything about my family or my upbringing so hush.