Childbearing is ethical only if parents can provide for their children well

It is ethical to have a child only when the parents have both the economic and psychological means to raise them. Large numbers of children from disadvantaged families are removed from their parents and placed in out-of-home care. This situation happens because either the parents are not able to satisfy the basic needs of children (such as food, health, education) due to lack of financial resources or because they abuse their children due to lack of education or mental fitness. It is a fact that some parents with mental health problems and drug or alcohol addiction are not able to properly care for their children. In the end, those children suffer from insufficient out-of-home care and become more likely to experience addiction, teen pregnancy, and depression. Therefore, in such cases, childbearing becomes unethical.^[1] Some conservative critics even suggest that parents with not enough financial means to support their families are, by definition, unfit. To eliminate poverty and protect future children, people that cannot provide for their kids should not have children.^[2]