>However, both you and Tamar have made the point that it is unfair for children not to have a quality of life style because their parents can't afford them. I contend that deciding to keep a child even though a couple knows that they cannot afford to raise it is an immature, selfish and irresponsible decision - proof that those people should not be allowed to raise children because they are incapable of putting the child's needs before their own.

What about the parents loosing their jobs and not capable of finding a new one? (for whatever reason) Or having an unpredictable major financial problem? Do they need to give up their child(s) to adoption? Would you?

>We have to do something to make people behave in a more responsible fashion.

That's called education and that's why every children should have free access to it.