re: The goal of many Gen Z and millennial women is now to be a DINK—dual income and no kids

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Not sure if serious. Pre-k daycare alone exceeds a Porsche 911 payment.

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So Don’t send your kid to daycare. Church preK (4 hours a day) in my town costs 200 a month per kid. Every kid that attends tests much higher than grade level in both math and reading when they reach public school. Or send them to some expensive daycare, if you can afford it.

People drastically overstate their “needs” when most of it is simply their “wants”. I think this is probably the case with many of the DINKs in the OP who said they couldn’t “afford” children. If they really wanted them, they’d figure it out. It’s ok that they don’t want kids, but no reason to act like they are only choosing that path for financial reasons. The thread is filled with stories about all the extra money DINKs have for travel and early retirement. And that’s a perfectly valid choice. You can choose to have vacations and early retirement. You can choose to have kids. Some people can have both. I’m not criticizing anything about either group. Just stating that “I can’t afford it” should usually be stated more correctly as “I don’t want to afford it”.
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