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Originally Posted by Acajack
To be perfectly honest, I've never heard anyone say that they were going to put off or forgo having kids for reasons of... taxation. Even financial reasons are extremely rarely invoked in my experience.
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My experience with my own friend/cohort is as follows:
One couple is waiting for the wife to find stable employment so she's able to take mat leave. They are paying off a recent hefty mortgage and although they can now afford kids, it took them this long to get stable.
Another friend is a transport truck owner/operator, the pay is decent but the time needed to cultivate relationships is non existent. He could opt to go back to working as a machinist but that would mean a huge pay cut.
My spouse and I are also making a decent living but both of us have very unstable employment. I'm working for the third ownership group in as many years in the same job.
Another one of our friends just returned after moving away for work. He did well, came back and met a girl. They got pregnant but unfortunately lost the baby near the end of term. Again, they're nearing 40.
We also have some friends who do have kids, all born to parents in their 30's.
Really, it's more a money vs. time vs. stability trade off. Not really a purely monetary issue. I guess instability is the real problem.
Still, constant reports on CBC radio about the glut of kids in CFS care don't play well among my group.