Things are a lot more expensive now though, relatively speaking. I think that needs to be a consideration. You could easily feed three kids and pay a mortgage off of one income thirty years ago.
Its not wrong to take consideration. Its probably smart even. But like most things in life, people take "proper prep and consideration" as an excuse to never actually act.
Wherein before BC and other factors, people just dealt with their 5+ pop outs. And you'd be surprised at what you can make work when you don't have any other options.
Even the comparison to how cheap things were years ago are at least partially people making excuses so they never have to try. I'm raising 2 (soon 3) kids in one of the most expensive states in a house we just bought with two mid-level incomes. Something that should be impossible if you listened to most people talking about how it "used to be."
Things are a lot more expensive now though, relatively speaking. I think that needs to be a consideration. You could easily feed three kids and pay a mortgage off of one income thirty years ago.
Its not wrong to take consideration. Its probably smart even. But like most things in life, people take "proper prep and consideration" as an excuse to never actually act.
Wherein before BC and other factors, people just dealt with their 5+ pop outs. And you'd be surprised at what you can make work when you don't have any other options.
Even the comparison to how cheap things were years ago are at least partially people making excuses so they never have to try. I'm raising 2 (soon 3) kids in one of the most expensive states in a house we just bought with two mid-level incomes. Something that should be impossible if you listened to most people talking about how it "used to be."