The US situation is dire. There are many reasons why my husband and I are child free, but at the forefront of all of them is money. With the cost of health care and time off work and our own student loans, not to mention the cost of university for any future children, we just could not afford to have children. And so we did not.

It frustrates me to no end that the US is failing to invest in its own future by making the cost of parenting so unbelievably expensive.