After we had our first child we went to some institutions to fill required papers. In the waiting area, there were informational posters everywhere to tell people to not get pregnant too early. One read:
A child costs you 160.000 € until its 18th birthday
Place where I live also gives about the equivalent of 5000 USD for a birth. My wife got a single room in the hospital (very basic public hospital, but not a room with 4 other mothers). The 5k just about covered the medical costs for the pregnancy, birth and the additional cost for the room for 3 days ...
Sadly, I could see this convincing people desperate enough for cash...
Those poor fucking kids.
I saw ads before Christmas incentivizing people to refinance car loans and get cash in hand :<
How the fuck much are they making that it is still worth it after taking $40k off the top?
It's probably in NYC or San Fran if that's for one kid. Both parents could reasonably make 100-200k around there.
Where is all this daycare money going? My daycare was like 8 ladies that just sat around in a playroom doing arts and crafts with us all day and took us to the pool and library in summer. They could have covered that on 2/3 kids each at 40k a year/kid. They didn't seem to be particularly well off...
What's a baby cost? $5,000?
What’s stopping communal childcare from becoming a thing again? This is how working parents did it for thousands of years.
The grandparents who would have been available to watch the children are still working at 65 because they can't afford to retire.
Well luckily this won’t be a problem since we won’t have the money, space of career stability to have kids until we’re 40 anyway. By then they’ll have no choice but to retire.
I imagine a mix of the already diminished size of extended family units, and the liability implications if it's outside your own family unit.
You're essentially just describing an unlicensed daycare if it's not a family member, and those exist.
A lack of communities. Communal child care works great when you live in a village and you know everyone and most people around you are related to you.
We don’t have that anymore. People live in suburbs where they don’t even want to talk to their neighbours. Their relatives live far away, potentially in other provinces/states or even other countries.
Heck, a lot of people don’t even like their own relatives!
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