I know nobody meant that only white, middle-class people can have kids. But that's the reality of saying "only people who can afford them should have kids". I know plenty of families that can afford the children they have yet are completely crap parents. Money is not a determinite of good parenting abilities.

There are plenty of people who have kids that are poor and weren't planning for it. I don't care if they scrape by, the important thing is that they love their children. If that means they have to collect welfare to spend more time with their kids as opposed to working some dead end job where they have to pay for strangers to watch their kids or even worse leave them home alone, then fine.

I think it's all very well and good that we feel we can tell poor people what to do and not do with their lives as we sit on our nice sofas and talk to each other online.

It's a great Christmas spirit thing, isn't it? I doubt Christ would have agreed with this attitude.