Lockdown is doling out Red Pills to high school "transgender" people
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Which is a fun consequences of letting women into the work force.
Now everything cost double because the assumption is you have two incomes instead of one, so even if you wanted to have a stay home mom to raise the kid you cannot afford it without her needing to work too. And she can't take Billy with her, and paying a babysitter will cost most of her paycheck hour by hour anyway.
If your wife goes to work so you can pay the babysitter.... Just have her quit and raise the kids??
Edit: Everything doesn't really cost that much more imo, we just waste too much money on stupid shit like cable TV / ridiculous cell phone bills.
She can't quit and raise the kids because that income is necessary for basic functioning.
Even without all that fluff, you still have lots of bills to pay that an average middle class income cannot support on its own. You can do it, but it'll be far from comfortable and tight enough that even small emergencies unravel your entire plan. America is famous for that happening medically, but life is full of fun random events like that.
Remember the average middle class person makes 40k-50k~ish a year. After taxes, and then rent/car/insurance as necessities, you aren't left with huge amounts to pay for everything else you need.
You're so right about it being possible but really difficult.
I personally did it complete with million dollar hospital bills and at times it was almost impossible. This was a decade ago, I would wager it's even harder today.
I wish we would encourage / incentivize mom's that wanted to stay at home instead of divorce.
Its harder by the year because lots of basic baby stuff just keeps getting more expensive, and CPS will make your life hell for not pampering the kid in some jurisdictions. Its just a whole lot of stuff costing just a bit too much adding up over time. When I worked grocery stores some time ago, formula was the #1 theft item by a significant margin because holy shit that stuff is expensive.
On a moral/emotional level I don't think anyone should have kids unless they can afford to have a stay at home mom to raise them, but realistically that would just end with nobody but the upper end having children.
I'm aware, as I don't have any myself and on a middle class income I have more disposable income than anything. Children are very much a massive money sink.
I would not go that far
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There is alot of things that are a good deal cheaper today when you do "hours needed to work to obtain them" instead of just $ amounts