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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on how you're raising your children and what your expectations are. If you're preparing them for community college, it's likely cheaper. If they attend school with upper middle class children and [b]you expect them to attend a selective four year college[/b], there are additional costs. They're not required costs in the same way that daycare was, but they're costs that some parents would consider necessary to raise a child well.

[b]Two of my children developed serious anxiety [/b]and it's quite often impossible to find psychiatrists and psychologists who are in network for your insurance. $300 a week for mental health care isn't something you can foresee when your child enters kindergarten. Tutors for organizational skills for a child with ADHD add up quickly too.

When you're working full time and have a toddler or two, life is pretty cheap (outside of child care) because you're exhausted. As they get older, you want to restart those activities you've given up - and you want to experience them with your children.

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two children developing anxiety in a household that "expects them to attend a selective for your college".  you don't say....[/quote]

It's unbelievable the parents required mental health care and the parents couldn't figure out the connection.  Therapists love people like PP.  it's easy money. [/quote]

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