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Children are simply too expensive. My first child cost me over $15,000 in co-pays. School for six hours a day is $1100 a month. The U.S. Department of Agricul
by barelysapient 3y ago
Children are simply too expensive. My first child cost me over $15,000 in co-pays. School for six hours a day is $1100 a month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates it'll cost over $230,000 to raise a child to 18. That's before college.
- notch898c 3y agoDepends. If someone seduces a doctor (see the trial of Conrad Murray who was Michael Jackson's propofil fixer who was in deep shit to multiple strippers for one night stand child support) for 20% you could take away 40k tax free and move to a quaint midwest town and come out quite ahead. Also if you're poor as dirt and just feed the kids rice and lentils and rely on (now increased) benefits and public institutions for everything else you can come ahead too. Whether this has anything to do with high fertility rates at the low income bands is up for interpretation.
- ryukafalz 3y ago> Children are simply too expensive ... School for six hours a day is $1100 a month. What? Public school is free and taxpayer-funded in the US.
- barelysapient 3y agoSure after kindergarten. But in the preceding 4 years that’s the payment. And that presumes I want to put my kid in public school, where frankly, academics and safety are severely lacking.
- treeman79 3y agoPut my daughters into Cheerleading at end of Covid lockdown. At one mark My wife did the math. “7,000 in fees paid to gym” Doesn't even include the private lessons, Hotels, tickets for competition. Special training mats and octagons, etc. At least kids absolutely love it.
- bell-cot 3y ago> Children are simply too expensive. These days? HELL, YES. Modern capitalism (including the education-industrial complex) has learned that kids are just about the ultimate leverage to squeeze money out of their families. And has gotten far too damned good at doing that.