So, yeah, it’s not the cost of having kids that turns people off from having them. The study that the article is based on even says this!
…Are you high? The article literally states that a third of young canadians are doing just that.
In a survey published last month, the agency found that more than a third of young Canadians were setting aside plans for a family due purely to financial reasons. Of Canadians in their 20s, Statistics Canada found that 38 per cent of them “did not believe they could afford to have a child in the next three years”