That's a pretty terrible comment to make, and borders on victim-blaming. You can't know what the parents' situation is. Most people nowadays do not have the financial ability to survive on a one-person salary, especially in one of the most expensive cities in the US. Additionally, the US ranks at the bottom for providing maternity and family leave - other nations provide 6 months to a year of leave for mothers and even in some cases fathers, which prevents parents from having to make this extremely difficult choice. Generally jobs here do not allow extended time for maternity. As a HI teacher, I knew many teachers who scrambled to get pregnant in the fall, so they would be able to be home with their newborns in the summer. There is no maternity leave for teachers, so you save up every drop of vacation time you can and pray nothing goes wrong with an early/late due date, bedrest, etc. There are so many ways the system does not support families in this choice. Don't blame the parents.