Kids are certainly less likely to be injured these days - but car seats for a dollar! Raising kids in the last 100 years makes normal consumer inflation look like a cute joke - modern car seats are easily 200x more expensive!
It’s a horrible actuary table to make, especially as a parent, but the engineer in me does some napkin math:
A) Number of children killed in car seat accidents
B) number of children not born due to increased financial burden of any given child
If B > A, we’re down net-children. Is “more kids” better than “safer kids”? Who’s to make a judgement like this?
It’s a gruesome math - and not one that applies to the financially well off: if you can afford it, you’re not complaining about increasing your child's safety.
It’s a horrible actuary table to make, especially as a parent, but the engineer in me does some napkin math:
A) Number of children killed in car seat accidents
B) number of children not born due to increased financial burden of any given child
If B > A, we’re down net-children. Is “more kids” better than “safer kids”? Who’s to make a judgement like this?
It’s a gruesome math - and not one that applies to the financially well off: if you can afford it, you’re not complaining about increasing your child's safety.