Families in China receive government support for one child and usually cannot afford to keep having children.
A. I don't think they can afford to keep it open like a public space.
"I can understand why they said no, but the district can't afford to keep them on any other way."
"Your father is all against it; he says we cannot afford to keep a girl in the house."
Can't America afford to keep even a few places as they were?
He was taken out of school at age 13 as his parents could not afford to keep him there.
And they can't afford to keep that child in college.
Whether they can afford to keep him, I don't know.
There was once a poor man who could no longer afford to keep his only son at home.
His center cannot afford to keep them for more than 10 days.