denton- I am not ranting, but I am stating a reality. You make a choice to have kids and you know what it costs. Society is geared towards families- it is a fact. If i was ranting i would point out how my taxes go toward public education and family assistance programs, and healthcare programs for kids. I don’t have health insurance. I’m not on welfare. I don’t resent the fact that tax money goes toward helping teh most vulnerable. My complaint is being made to feel people like me are somehow less worthy or relevant because we don’t have kids.
Unfortunately even the most macho fireman won’t be able to regrow necessary body parts 🙁
“Not just ours. I understand why society is like that, but when it comes to services, taxes, assistance programs,”
bxgirl, you’re sounding like rob and his income tax rants. The tax break you get for being a parent is somewhere around $700 a year. If you’re lower middle class and up you don’t get any free services or assistance programs.
Guvment assumes it costs $220,000 to raise a child, but the link below has a few qualifiers.
“Broken down by family income, parents with an income between $56,670 and $98,120 can expect to spend $222,360 and a family earning more than $98,120 can expect to spend $369,360.”
It also states highest costs in NE. So, given that most 2 income Stoner-type couples fall in this category or more, from my own experience (120k for college alone) one kid can easy cost $500k to raise.
If I would have that money now and invested it, I probably could retire tom’w. But I, like most parents, feel it was a good trade ($ for kids).
Nevertheless, while I agree my life has been immeasurably enriched by parenthood, I don’t feel it makes me a better person or a superior person than someone who was not a parent.
Besides, keep hanging with those firemen, you never know what could happen!
Just as my taxes paid for your parents 😉
By denton on September 15, 2010 7:33 PM
my kid will pay your SS…
me too! you’re welcome brownstoners.
my kid will pay your SS…
Colleges reporting closing dorms after discovery More bedbugs than men and women earned PhDs in 2009.
Silly cut and paste hour.
Listening to the news…
Colleges reporting closing dorms after discovery of bedbugs.
More women than men earned PhDs in 2009.
denton- I am not ranting, but I am stating a reality. You make a choice to have kids and you know what it costs. Society is geared towards families- it is a fact. If i was ranting i would point out how my taxes go toward public education and family assistance programs, and healthcare programs for kids. I don’t have health insurance. I’m not on welfare. I don’t resent the fact that tax money goes toward helping teh most vulnerable. My complaint is being made to feel people like me are somehow less worthy or relevant because we don’t have kids.
Unfortunately even the most macho fireman won’t be able to regrow necessary body parts 🙁
500!!!!!!!!!!
WOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FINALLY MOFO’s!!
500
Suck it, Randolph.
“Not just ours. I understand why society is like that, but when it comes to services, taxes, assistance programs,”
bxgirl, you’re sounding like rob and his income tax rants. The tax break you get for being a parent is somewhere around $700 a year. If you’re lower middle class and up you don’t get any free services or assistance programs.
Guvment assumes it costs $220,000 to raise a child, but the link below has a few qualifiers.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2010/06/16/cost-to-raise-a-child-in-us-tops-220000.htm
“Broken down by family income, parents with an income between $56,670 and $98,120 can expect to spend $222,360 and a family earning more than $98,120 can expect to spend $369,360.”
It also states highest costs in NE. So, given that most 2 income Stoner-type couples fall in this category or more, from my own experience (120k for college alone) one kid can easy cost $500k to raise.
If I would have that money now and invested it, I probably could retire tom’w. But I, like most parents, feel it was a good trade ($ for kids).
Nevertheless, while I agree my life has been immeasurably enriched by parenthood, I don’t feel it makes me a better person or a superior person than someone who was not a parent.
Besides, keep hanging with those firemen, you never know what could happen!