if you can afford a child with minimal impact to your lifestyle, you are quite wealthy.
childcare is like 2-3K a month, for that to not substantailly impact you, i would assume your take home is northwards of 10K+ a month, which means you’re making close to 200K+. which is often the income bracket at which having children is not a life-style altering choice.
for most folks, having a kid is so expensive it completely alters their lifestyle because it removes like 30-50% of their income.
Nah, that’s crazy, I said cost would be towards the bottom of my list. Because there are a lot more, better reasons.
And then I said “number 1 would probably be something like “I would never forgive myself for bringing another life into this shitty world unsolicited”.”
if you can afford a child with minimal impact to your lifestyle, you are quite wealthy.
childcare is like 2-3K a month, for that to not substantailly impact you, i would assume your take home is northwards of 10K+ a month, which means you’re making close to 200K+. which is often the income bracket at which having children is not a life-style altering choice.
for most folks, having a kid is so expensive it completely alters their lifestyle because it removes like 30-50% of their income.
Nah, that’s crazy, I said cost would be towards the bottom of my list. Because there are a lot more, better reasons.
And then I said “number 1 would probably be something like “I would never forgive myself for bringing another life into this shitty world unsolicited”.”
So you can afford 2-3K a month or not?
“Having to clean the fork would be pretty far down the list of reasons why I don’t want to stab myself with a fork”
“Oh, you enjoy doing the dishes?”
Naw.
But even if I did, it wouldn’t move the needle much, because cost would be toward the bottom of my list of reasons not to have kids.
implying children aren’t a financial burden implies you’re wealthy.
the original post says ‘cost’ and the other person goes ‘cost isn’t a reason for me’.
No, the other person said cost is not the highest on the list.
You’re the one crusading for it to be “not a reason”.