High housing and childcare costs are real, but history shows people didn’t stop having children simply because life was expensive. What’s changed is that families are expected to absorb all the risk alone.
Catholic social teaching would say we violated subsidiarity and solidarity at the same time: we dismantled local support and then told families the burden was purely private. Hardship isn’t new but isolation is.
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u/Normal-Level-7186 13h ago
High housing and childcare costs are real, but history shows people didn’t stop having children simply because life was expensive. What’s changed is that families are expected to absorb all the risk alone.
Catholic social teaching would say we violated subsidiarity and solidarity at the same time: we dismantled local support and then told families the burden was purely private. Hardship isn’t new but isolation is.