When I’ve made this claim in the past, I’ve heard the objection that low-income people shouldn’t have to delay childbirth and we should be giving them money to end child poverty instead of putting the burden on individuals. I find this reasoning pretty inconsistent with the argument that child poverty is extremely damaging to children and scars them with a lifetime of negative impacts. Given that we do right now live in a country without a safety net big enough to prevent child poverty, if you think that child poverty isn’t bad enough that potential parents should delay childbirth into their late 20s, then it would seem to imply that child poverty isn’t actually that big of a problem.