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I do not want to sound insensitive, and I understand that some circumstances are out of some peoples control, but I can't figure out why your guest would continue to produce so many childrren if she cannot afford them?  I hear about this time and time again...I can understand it happening once or twice, but to keep having children when you know that you will have to depend on the state to support them baffels me. 

My husband and I have one child whom we struggle to raise by working alternate shifts, etc.  The thought of bringing another child into this world is not even an option for us because we know that we could not afford it, not to mention the environmental consequences of a growing population...

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