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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people say that it gives the child one less year to work and earn money - it leaves them at a disadvantage. [/quote]

But someone who does better in school will go to a more prestigious university and get a higher-paying job. In the long-run, someone who starts a prestigious career at 22 is going to be much better off financially than someone who starts a mediocre career at 21.[/quote]

Except that there is not much evidence that being older gets  you that better job. In fact there's a reasonable body of evidence that having to hustle to keep up with the older kids as a younger kid in the class, they ended up surpassing them.   But as others have already said, only 1%ers can afford the extra cost of a year of daycare/being out of the workforce to mind a child.  I know a woman who was induced to have her early September due date baby in August so they wouldn't have that extra year of daycare.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/youngest-kid-smartest-kid[/quote]

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