All I was talking about was the ability of being able to provide for your children and yes, because of this your financial situation should matter when it comes to the decision of having kids, at least it would be the case for me personally. If I can't financially sustain a family, I wouldn't want to put my wife/gf and/or future child into a situation, where every month would become a struggle moneywise.Sometimes you just have to sit and laugh when you hear all of the views and responses people take on this type of subject.
People who are too disabled to hold a good paying job shouldn't be allowed to have children? Really? First off this chick has been disabled long before she would have been able to seek employment. If she wasn't on welfare she would be on some sort of disability program. Are people actually saying aside from the pain and treatment she has to go through everyday that prevents her from seeking the career or fulfilling her dreams she had when she was a little girl we should also allow her disabilities from extending her bloodline and raising a child. Should we also strip the parental rights from somebody who gets diagnosed with cancer or not fix them if they get diagnosed with the disease because they will most likely live a short life and won't be able to earn the same type of coin if they were cancer free?
As you use the cancer patient analogy: It doesn't matter anyways if you earn less, as long as it's still enough to provide for yourself and your family (in other words: enough for yourself and the people depending on you). But back to the cancer: When I was diagnosed 5 years ago, I wasn't thinking about having kids at that time and it was treatable. But I can guarantee that if the outlook had been worse, the last thing I would have done, would have been getting my girlfriend pregnant at that time: If I was diagnosed with an untreatable disease and only had a very limited amount of time left, in my opinion it would be extremely selfish to have kids since you force the mother into a situation, where she is highly likely to end up as a single parent and all the problems that creates and thereby you might put both her and your child into a very bad situation. Even a discussion with your wife/gf at that time about having kids would be pretty selfish: Because you were dying and wanted kids, but she didn't because of the outlook of having to raise your child mainly on her own after your death, she probably would feel guilty if she refused because in a way she'd be refusing the final wish of her dying husband/bf.
Anybody should make his own decisions and if you want kids, go ahead regardless of your situation, if you feel like that's the right thing to do. There are more important factors than just fundamental financial needs when it comes to the question of having kids or not.
But it's also a decision, that affects more people than just you and also affects people (=your child), that have to live with the consequences of your decision, so at least you should take all this circumstances in effect when making your final decision...