In my country, it is pretty common for parents to have kids then think that their kids are their hope. That is because they get kids without being financially ready for it yet and then they just eventually hope that when their kids grow up they will be the ones to build wealth for them. But is having kids the reason why people end up financially worse over the years? Do not get me wrong, kids are a blessing but realistically speaking they are expensive. Is it fair to yourselves and to the kids to have kids just to leave it up to them to be wealthy and let them grow up through hardships?
Presently, do you know that people are refusing to get married or have a kid because of the economy hardship that they don't want to bring up a child(born a child) that wil pass through the hardship they passed through in life. It's better they remain single. If they should born a child, is the one that will take care of them at old age, and they will give him or her the best of education.
I don't see it as a bad idea for parents to long for financial upliftment from their children after catering for them from birth till the time they grow of age. The time I will condemn a parents act is when they know they are poor, hardly do they feed, they have given birth to more than Four children