I'm not sure if culture has anything to do with it. But there is something seriously wrong when well educated people go about reproducing without even thinking about it.
No wonder India is bursting at the seams with all the population overload that it can't really support.
Are you from India? I am not and I don't know it, but I can only imagine that cultural differences make people not worry about child support. Perhaps it is a given that the extended family will take care of children, or people don't mind much if children starve in the street if things don't work out (I don't think so, just saying - things might be very different). In any case I am pretty sure people only have children if it makes sense for them to do so, even in India.
Coming to your question about whether I'm from India, I don't think it really matters; I never claimed that I know India. No matter where it happens, having children without proper planning and letting them starve is not acceptable. May be it's socially acceptable in certain societies to do so, but it's still outright stupid and cruel to children.
No wonder India is bursting at the seams with all the population overload that it can't really support.
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=in&out=...
This picture scares the hell out of me.
contrast that with this: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=us&out=...