I guess I am sort of late to the party regarding showtimes girls, and shameless they premiered a couple weeks ago, but after watching them both a couple times, I have decided that they are really talking about two kinds of poverty. One is single person poverty.
Single person poverty isn't great, but it's not horrible, if you know where the good happy hours are you can probably eat for free every night and living with a bunch of roommates, while again not always great can be fun. Add kids to equation and poverty is not so great.
Once you have kids it's probably not such a good idea to surf happy hour buffets and live with five other people, not to mention healthcare can be much more expensive and school expenses and ....
Watching the two shows makes me think we should start looking at children as a cause of poverty, not a gift, and do what we can to make them safe legal and rare rather than have policies that encourage people to have lots of kids. At the very least maybe it's time to talk about Population growth more honestly.