I was paying off a half million mortgage with a wife not working and 2 kids at school on $100k. Still had holidays and enough to pay back almost double the repayments, which is why that mortgage is almost gone. But seriously, have some gonad control and don't have kids until you can afford them, they are a luxury like a car or a dog that has costs and is purely a choice you make to have them.
To make ends meet in the past my grandfather started work at 8, father at 12, I started at 16. If you think they had it better, pfttt... Grandfather had no choice in what he did, just work in the same factory his parents did, bet on pigeon/horse races for passing the time. all go on holiday to the same place the whole factory went to during the same two weeks off everyone got. I feel like a lazy prick just thinking about it.