Children are expensive that's true but we only see it this way because fiat is stealing everything from us including the affordability to have kids or a family. My grand parents used to be farmers they had 14 kids 10 survived, my parents had 3+5 I am about to have a 2nd. You see more time progress on a fiat standard the fewer kids we have and the more justification fiat comes up with to not have kids without addressing the root cause of the problem which is the stealing of purchasing power from the individual through money printing and govt corruptions.