Though many people in my life have told me I would make an excellent father… I would never consider having children unless I was able to provide a quality life for them.
And I frankly do not see that as possible for at this point anyone, anywhere I have ever met.
I am not trying to say like you shouldnt have had your kid, that this logic should apply to other people, obviously there is much more to raising children than just your income level compared to where you live, like the nature of you and your partner, how much time you can spend with the kids, how many good friends or family you can count on to help with such things.
But I have never known anyone reliable and trustworthy in my family, and all of my former friends turned out to only be interested in what I could give to them, with no capacity for reciprocity.
All my former partners so far, with one exception, have turned out to be astoundingly unreliable, astoundingly selfish, astoundingly emotionally and mentally unstable, and / or just outright cheated on me…
… So, at age 34, still single, never married, no children, no family or friends I can count on for anything beyond playing video games with online, my thoughts about potentially raising a child are basically that I would have to somehow either make enough money to I guess adopt one and be a single parent, or perhaps have a random fairy tale like encounter with someone who is unlike basically every romantic partner I have ever known.
I realize I am rambling but I mean to convey sympathy and empathy for your situation. Many of my former exes are the ones who told me I would make a good father because they saw how good I was with their sisters kids or cousins or something like that. And part of that comes from being concerned for their access to education.
I… do not see this country in general becoming better. When a society fails to educate its children well… many bad things happen fairly soon afterward.
A prerequisite, essentially assumed as a given, for a functioning democracy, as envisioned by the ancient Athenians … is that the population is reasonably well educated, informed, capable of discussing and investigating complex nuanced topics. We do not really have that any more.
I wish you and your daughter the best of luck, and I hope that your family is able to do the enormously difficult task of raising a child to be a curious and informed person without any further burdens from our decaying society.
Perhaps she will find some topic she is passionate about learning more about by the time she becomes a teen, and perhaps she will seek out knowledge with zeal.