Currently living in AUS/NZ with SO. We’re going to be trying for a kid soon, but we have no support network here and no family to help out. I think we should move back to the States, where I’m 100% certain family members would come to help us out for as long as we needed. Given the distance, that just wouldn’t happen if we stayed in AUS/NZ. SO thinks we can just handle it on our own.
We wouldn’t need to find new jobs, as we can just transfer internally. Would taking advantage of your home support network be enough of a reason to back to your home country?
We’re just going to gloss over American maternal mortality? Uh-huh
That’s what I mean by “if you can afford it.” If you control for factors like income, the maternal mortality rate isn’t actually higher in the US than in other developed countries.
Plus that shouldn’t be the only factor that matters if like half of the people are left with PTSD and other severe complications that could have been avoided.