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re: The goal of many Gen Z and millennial women is now to be a DINK—dual income and no kids
Posted on 5/4/24 at 11:11 am to lsuconnman
Posted on 5/4/24 at 11:11 am to lsuconnman
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Not sure if serious. Pre-k daycare alone exceeds a Porsche 911 payment.
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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Posted on 5/4/24 at 11:19 am to Dawgfanman
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So Don’t send your kid to daycare.
How are they going to do that when they are also supposed to get a higher paying (and more demanding) job and/or multiple jobs?
Posted on 5/4/24 at 11:27 am to Dawgfanman
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Church preK (4 hours a day) in my town costs 200 a month
Yeah good luck trying to fit in a work schedule on that.
Posted on 5/4/24 at 11:53 am to Dawgfanman
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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.
“They’d figure it out”
What does this mean, exactly? Go back to school? Change majors? Work 60 hours a week instead of 40? Maybe people don’t want to do that. I also cannot understand why it offends so many people that they say financially they can’t “afford” them.
A better choice is, they don’t want to spend their money on kids. They’d rather do other shite with that money. And that’s totally OK.
Some people, like myself, see kids as vastly overrated. Good for other people having kids. Hope they raise them right, they’re the future, it’s just not for me. I think it’s a stupid cultural norm that everyone must have kids always or else they’re “party people” and must be unfulfilled and unhappy. The south is really dumb in this respect.
People without kids spend a lot less time scoffing at those with kids than vice versa.
Posted on 5/4/24 at 2:41 pm to Dawgfanman
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If they really wanted them,
It’s unfortunate TD’s search function is so awful.
It’s always been a pretty common OT theme that people don’t really want children.
Posters used to label couples as selfish because they only had a single child which resulted in social awkwardness.
Today, nobody GAF about being called selfish. The only thing that surprises me is that people embrace being called a dink.
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