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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ill bite - I am 32 and my DH is 30.  Our HHI is 175k and two big reasons we aren't having kids yet - in the immediate we can't afford it (day care is upwards of $1600-1800 a month in DC) and in the long term we can't afford it (our under grad institutions are pushing 60k+ per year NOW) and the other reason is most of our friends aren't even married at this point and the ones that are have not had kids.  If we had a kid we would only be breaking even for the next few years and would be in debt if we had 2 and were paying for daycare.  Husband is a JD working government and I work in the non profit world and have only a BA.[/quote]

This is so sad to me :( I don't think people should have kids if they don't want them. That is clearly a disaster in the making. But if you do want them, I hope you go for it. They turn into people you love - often the most important people in the world to you. How can you (society in general, people in this thread) say they don't enrich one's life?[/quote]

I'm in an identical situation to the first pp. Middle class people are in a very weird donut hole. There's assistance for the poor and the rich can pay outright, but the majority of us STRUGGLE with daycare costs and no maternity leave. There is little to no support for middle class Americans. Hell I don't even have full day K in my county.

We would absolutely love children and we will have them, but it will be a big financial burden.[/quote]

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