First off – don’t have kids. Expensive, heart-breaking, sarcastic little snots that bind your life. Don’t do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please see prior\/previous\/former discussion \u2026 Quick refresher? No. That would be a hard<\/em> no, full stop, end discussion. Not for you, but for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUT! HOWEVER! NEVERTHELESS! if you (Other Person) elect to ignore sage advice \u2026 then have them all.\u00a0 All the kids, and 12 is not too many.\u00a0 Fifteen might be pushing it but if that uterus ain\u2019t prolapsed get to work<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If must, go big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seven is not too many children. Twelve is good. The Duggars took a lot of heat … most of it was probably jealousy, tho’ … imagine having the confidence to completely disregard the size of the carbon footprint produced by solely your loins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good on you, Jim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The greatest gift any parent can give a child is a sibling, and the more the greater the gift. Even if they hate each other long-term, there is a shared past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With that in mind, tho’ … found another (what I\/we\/us consider to be) a helpful article re the actual, real-life costs of having a kid.\u00a0 At present?\u00a0 USDA says middle-class cost of raising single kid = $300K \u2026 my monkey is my child!<\/p>\n\n\n\n See, the only child thing?\u00a0 Sad, sad.\u00a0 TheKid is an onlyborn, and had I\/we\/thusly noted the joys of the loin offspring, Half and the other half would have bred much, much, much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Too late now. Heh. God flipped the lights on Club Breed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So! If considering fertilizing some eggs, keep a few thoughts at the forefront \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2013 Increased costs of existence \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Housing<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Got to make room. A two-bedroom, five-story walkup sounds like serious fun when you are just you, but children need space \u2026 and room \u2026 and doors, preferably with locks but a closet will do<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Addressing the Daily Food = Fuel Problem<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fun Fact \/ Some Serious Nonsense \u2013 a healthy diet of fresh fruits\/veggies, lean proteins, minimal fats? Expensive, like about an extra $500 per year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n BUT! Treat your body like a garbage chute? Cheap eats. Save money and die sooner. Great<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Medical care \/ Yours & Theirs<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Right now the woman person is required to birth the young, and unless she\u2019s down to squat with a bucket and a hank of rawhide there’s going to be a need for insurance to cover the birthing costs \u2026 aaannnddd the medical costs for the newly birthed young \u2026 aaannnddd the ongoing medical costs until the young age and can pay for their own \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cheaper alternative = holistic shamanic practices + lawyer fees to get kids back from CPS\/family court<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Clothes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Babies need hats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Care for Kid when You Can\u2019t<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Grandparents are out \/ 60 is the new 26 or something \u2026 lots of chlamydia in nursing homes go figure<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Costs re Social Status<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n One can exercise significant control over this type of spending but not really \u2026 no one needs the Internet or cable or a cell phone, but try to live without that stuff \u2013 Ted Kaczynski had the right idea \/ wrong approach \u2013 and this represents all the crap that gets spent but is never accounted for \u2026 sports extracurriculars, popularity costs (iPhone 27 anyone? anyone?), social stigma avoidance (don\u2019t want to pay for that but theKid will if don\u2019t so must or must learn to love seeing child suffer) \u2026 the list is unended<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Days Off \/ No Pay Days<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeh somebody is going to have to stay home with the offspring when offspring cannot be unloaded onto others \u2026 and many times employers are of the opinion that child care is a personal problem that the individual must address \/ unrelated to the individual as an employee go figure<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Education<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fun Fact \/ Some Serious Nonsense \u2013 If able, will spend more on (1) housing, for good school district, or (2) private school, for good schooling.\u00a0 And if offspring = dumbass \/ totally parents\u2019 fault. And college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Transportation<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Funny story \/ not really \u2026 before theKid, Half and other half drove a sporty little attention-grabbing stick-shifted piece of fun \u2026 no room for the car seat. HAH! Joke\u2019s on us. MINIVAN that\u2019s a lie TRUCK<\/p>\n\n\n\n You know what\u2019s another inherent cost of breeding?\u00a0 You got it \u2026 a debt monkey.\u00a0 Science says that parents tend to spend future money for current essentials, and the monkey just grows and grows \u2026 and the kids learn the debt habit from the parents \u2026 generational wealth \/ generational debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time to create a new inheritance for the children. After all, they didn\u2019t ask to be here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or maybe they did \u2026 maybe they stood in line early on a Monday morning for the chance to slip on the mortal coil \/ dunno how the process works, but I certainly don\u2019t remember being asked if I wanted to be alive,\u00a0 just arrived<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honest\/full disclosure?\u00a0 The Fukushima collapse should have been a strong hint.\u00a0 The Pacific Ocean is radioactive, and I think we killed it.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t paying attention, though, per usual, and then theKid arrived.\u00a0 Oops.\u00a0 My bad.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a PlayStation 42?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the greatest cost of having kids?\u00a0 Lack of Planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sad fact:\u00a0 most children are an accident, a failure of birth control and responsible sexing.\u00a0 So!\u00a0 You got in that bed with one person but are leaving with two (or more) \u2026 ewww<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Real planning means you don\u2019t have kids.\u00a0 Sad, but not for them \u2026 for you.\u00a0 Modern civilization \/ habitable earth environment is flushed and swirling, and it is entirely unfair to breed in a dying world. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUT WE DO WHAT WE WANT SO BABIES ALL THE BABIES if you (Other Person) decide to breed, give the kid a sib, or four, seriously.\u00a0 {Proverbs 17:6} ‘Cuz at that point, it stops being about you (and not just me you, Other Person You). <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off – don’t have kids. Expensive, heart-breaking, sarcastic little snots that bind your life. Don’t do it. Please see prior\/previous\/former discussion \u2026 Quick refresher? No. That would be a hard no, full stop, end discussion. Not for you, but for them. BUT! HOWEVER! NEVERTHELESS! if you (Other Person) elect to ignore sage advice \u2026 … <\/p>\n