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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, it's all about how the parents do it. My best friend grew up UMC with me, but is definitely LC now. They live on a graduate student's stipend (30k?) with their 3 kids. And they're thrilled and their children are extremely happy. They focus nearly 100% on the kids. [/quote]

Don’t kid yourself, they are happy because their UMC parents are playing banker and backstop so that they can get their PhDs AND have three kids. That life is not possible without family help. No way. I saw this with my in laws. They wanted to support their daughter’s wish to have children in her thirties, but her husband had kind of a weird career trajectory and was still in grad school. So they footed a lot of bills, that no one outside of the family knew they were footing. People with rich parent (or at least parents they know would pull out every dollar to help their kids) make crazy decisions, like
Having theee kids on $30k. 
I’m sure they are also making the assumption that the graduate degree will turn into a higher salary later on, which, if we are talking academia, is certainly not a guarantee. [/quote]

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