Yep, that's why I listed career and finances separately. I had your sort of position in mind. If you take an average of my friends, you'd get someone in their late twenties who still wasn't quite settled into a job that would pay enough to support a child, usually due to protracted education. Look at my best friend, who did four years of undergrad in languages, then worked at this and that for a couple of years, then did a law conversion course, then did a law traineeship, then got a law job but left after a year, and has just got another law job (in a field more suited to him this time). He'll be 30 in September and is only now getting to the point where he can start thinking about buying a property and settling down. He's had to go back to living with his parents at various points over the years, for instance when all his savings went into the cost of law school. Even had he been in a suitable relationship, I can't see a point during his twenties when he'd have been able to support a child.
And yes, I'm talking about not being able to support children when you're at the level where you're barely earning enough to feed yourself and don't know where you'll be working in two years' time, rather than fussing about being able to afford Baby Gap and food from M&S.
And yes, I'm talking about not being able to support children when you're at the level where you're barely earning enough to feed yourself and don't know where you'll be working in two years' time, rather than fussing about being able to afford Baby Gap and food from M&S.
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