Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
Yes, having children is a financial burden - but you chose to have them, so cough up.


The lack of children here is why the government can hardly pay the pensioners anymore, they're trying a lot of things to make people have more children, not less. Of course the lack of jobs for young people doesn't help with that any way you look at it. The money pensioners receive is not the money they paid into the pension fonds that was stored and is then given to them again, it's paid for by the younger generations who have to rely on their kids later to pay for their pensions, thus we need enough younger people with jobs to keep things working.
Not sure that's exactly how it works in the UK but I doubt you have some trasure chests with pensioner payments stored away somewhere.