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re: Raising a child now costs over $300,000 in the U.S., study finds.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:35 am to Everyday Is Saturday
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:35 am to Everyday Is Saturday
I'm on pace to spend that in ice cream alone. Worth every cent
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Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:39 am to Everyday Is Saturday
That’s just 14 years of private school
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:40 am to 777Tiger
Yeah, a very hard and life changing one
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:46 am to Everyday Is Saturday
Make you wonder how much of this is engineered? 40 years ago single income families existed just fine. Now it seems to be comfortable you need to make upwards of 250K. I wonder what the cost would be if Americans weren’t so obsessed with disposable garbage. And the paradigm was closer to Moms (or even Dad) staying home with the kids. It’s a luxury I had growing up. Seems a rarity these days.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:49 am to The Baker
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daycare tuition costs as much as my mortgage
"you could be a man and make enough to have at stay at home wife instead of letting strangers raise your kids"
t-Roy, twiced divorced, Franklin, LA
This post was edited on 4/9/26 at 11:50 am
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:52 am to Topwater Trout
The title of the thread is
For those of us raising our children, it is an investment, not a cost.
quote:. When a person has kids to get the extra welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, and subsidized housing, but still cannot give them a stable, nurturing environment, that person is not raising a child.
Raising a child now costs over $300,000 in the U.S., study finds.
For those of us raising our children, it is an investment, not a cost.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 12:10 pm to Topwater Trout
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makes you wonder how poor people have so many kids
Topwater Trout and company are paying for them.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 12:13 pm to yellowfin
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That’s just 14 years of private school
I moved to the best public school district and school I could find in my area. I figured I saved at least 200K in tuition over the years.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 12:17 pm to Topwater Trout
I can believe it
Posted on 4/9/26 at 12:23 pm to Harvey Vortac
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I wonder what the cost would be if Americans weren’t so obsessed with disposable garbage. And the paradigm was closer to Moms (or even Dad) staying home with the kids. It’s a luxury I had growing up. Seems a rarity these days.
This was more our plan. Wife stayed home. Huge sacrifice (she is LSU Academic Medal winner/HS Valedictorian). But said sacrifice paid off in multiples…for kids, her, us…on and on. Blessed to have had nice paying roles to accommodate.
Interesting point you make. Change in paradigm created cost. And that’s just the visible cost. So many other, dare I say ‘more impactful’ unseen costs. Unable to be fully in tune / listening / hearing with some of the challenges of kids’ lives, in the moment…when at work, thinking about work, accessible by work and simply not there, physically present but mentally distracted…that certainly comes with jobs, for example.
Nice clothes, things and vacations just don’t compensate.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 12:27 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
Exaggerated. No way I've spent that much.
Childcare and private school is a lifestyle choice not a direct cost of raising kids.
Childcare and private school is a lifestyle choice not a direct cost of raising kids.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 12:30 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
Why else would I work so hard if not to do it for them?
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:01 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
Half of that is Jaxxon’s bat budget
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:05 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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$300,000
Small investment to make sure I am taking care of when I am old and dependent
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:05 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
Exactly why wayyyyyy less people are having kids now.
It has become extremely too expensive to be able to afford anything
It has become extremely too expensive to be able to afford anything
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:11 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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$242,000 LA
Then why does the state make me pay $304k in child support over 18 years?
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:13 pm to SludgeFactory
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What about those of us who not only pay for our kids, but are also paying for the kids of, well, you know.
What about those of us with NO kids paying for others.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:20 pm to travelgamer
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What about those of us with NO kids paying for others.
Sorry you will die alone never knowing real love
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:21 pm to yellowfin
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That’s just 14 years of private school
I wish
Posted on 4/9/26 at 1:33 pm to SteveLSU35
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4 trillion if Buckstyn plays travel t-ball, pitching lessons, tournament costs, and the 45 bats he'll need the whole way through.
i hang my head in shame reading this. Sir, you are not wrong.
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