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Three Kids? You Showoffs
Washington Post ^
| Apr. 6, 2008
| Pamela Paul
Posted on 04/07/2008 1:01:59 PM PDT by Alouette
My husband and I are getting ready to do what many couples in these brink-of-recessionary times would consider unthinkable. No, we're not buying a Martha's Vineyard retreat or planning a month in St. Bart's or eco-decorating our house.
We're planning to have a third child.
What shocks people, when we tell them, isn't the thought of hauling three kids onto a place for a vacation, or even the idea of coming home every night to a houseful of runny noses and homework assignments. What gets them is the sheer financial audacity. Raising kids today costs a fortune. Last month, the Department of Agriculture estimated that each American child costs an average of $204,060 to house, clothe, educate and entertain until the age of 18.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; lifestyle; parenting
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I have 9 kids, that makes me a super showoff.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:01:59 PM PDT
by
Alouette
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:02:57 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: Alouette
If people waited until they could afford to have kids....there would be none
3
posted on
04/07/2008 1:03:54 PM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
To: Alouette
I stopped at 4. I ran out of bedrooms.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:05:05 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: Alouette
Who are these people that think it takes millions of dollars to have 3 children. (Three? I don’t even remember having 3, because I had the 4th so quickly!)
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:05:13 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
To: Alouette
I have 9 kids, that makes me a super showoff. I will refrain from saying what that makes you.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:05:31 PM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: CougarGA7
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:06:44 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
To: Phantom Lord
It makes her an Icon, okay?
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:07:12 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
To: Alouette
Last month, the Department of Agriculture estimated that each American child costs an average of $204,060 to house, clothe, educate and entertain until the age of 18. That's 11336.67 per year, per child.
Does anybody know the basis of this claim, and whether or not it's BS?
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:08:07 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Alouette
ROFL at the vicious babushka doll!
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:09:22 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Alouette
Actually, a showoff cubed.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:09:58 PM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: Tax-chick
Kids aren’t that expensive until they reach elementary school age, really.
12
posted on
04/07/2008 1:10:48 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Supreme Court Justice Fred Thompson. The next best place for Fred.)
To: wagglebee; NYer; Coleus
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:10:50 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: Alouette
People look they are going to faint when I tell them I have five.
To: Alouette
I am the mother of four. Grandmom of 9, with #10 due soon! :-)
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:11:09 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
To: ArrogantBustard
Actually they base this nonsense on such things as how much the room your kid will take (suppose they factor in the opportunity cost of renting it out) as well as the average time a mother takes off a job — again, opportunity cost.
SO it isn’t really money you actually have — they just assume you’d be doing something else if you were not having kids. Bureaurocratic idiots if you ask me.
To: Alouette
I have a 21 year old, and a set of 19 yr old twins. I’m not only a show off... I did it with flair! :-)
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:11:36 PM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(High Maintenance Estrogen Bot........... look out :0))
To: Phantom Lord
I will refrain from saying what that makes you. It makes me a vicious babushka, OK?
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:11:49 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: ArrogantBustard
A lot of that cost are costs the parents would have whether they had kids or not. The mortgage doesn’t go up if you have a kid. Food only costs marginally more till they get older. Clothing is a biggie though. Car seats, etc...
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:11:54 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Supreme Court Justice Fred Thompson. The next best place for Fred.)
To: Alouette
My wife and I are exhausted with 3. I don’t know how you guys with more kids do it. Kudos to my folks who raised 6 of us.
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posted on
04/07/2008 1:11:58 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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