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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well then good luck raising your kid in poverty! Never have a child if you don't have funds in the bank for just such emergencies. 
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You are the one living in a fantasy. As the PP pointed out, few people plan to have a child in poverty. Young mothers, in particular, are often naive about what parenthood will require or how quickly expenses add up. It's unrealistic to assume everyone who has a child will have perfect expectations for how much it costs. And the savings to cover it.

Not to mention, the expectations change. I had a child in 2017 and planned to send her to the local public PK3 with affordably priced aftercare in the fall of 2020. I did all the research to make sure we'd be able to get a spot (which we did) and pricing out the aftercare, talking to families who had done it, etc. We structured our family finances around this plan with the expectation that when she started preschool, we'd be able to get rid of the 20k+ we were spending on childcare. Then Covid hit and our school was virtual all year. We were entirely unprepared for that shift and the result was a mad scramble and a LOT of hunting for the least expensive childcare option we could locate that was sufficient. I wasn't trying to hire a sitter for $10/hr because I live somewhere where that would be laughable, but I honestly wasn't that far off.

The best laid plans and all that.[/quote]

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