LOL, just read it costs over $200,000 to raise a kid

[Socalstylz88]

200k bare mininum.

College aloine is $160,000

Car - Depends on your families financial situation

1k a year on clothing

Add an extra $50 for food a week $200/month $2400/year

Random entertainment for your kid such as giving him/her money for movies/partying with friends

If you have a girl, forget about it. BRB $5000 handbag for a birthday.

[EnderG60]

Thats not even $1000 a month. If you honestly think a kid will cost you less then that youre retarded. Most parents I know spend more then that on daycare, and its not even counting college.

[TR88]

lol at *******s who don't talk to their parents, you are a piece of chit if you do that and can suck my dick

[GimpManlet]

$200k for 18 years, that's a little under $1k a month per child... Lmao, that is for sure not the average cost. My two kids together cost under $500 a month right now. The real cost of kids is time. That should be the factor that you decide on. Are you willing to spend most of your precious free time on kids?

[PenorOfTheGods]

My mom try and say she spent over a million dollar raising me and I say fk no you didn't you didn't even make 500k in the 18 years i was with u so how can u spend. and no she no debt, debt free!

[turbodiesel_kai]

yeah save up that money and buy a ferrari instead. just saying.

[Hollowbox]

Money is nothing. In the end no one will care how much you had. It will be about how many people loved you and how many people you loved.

There is nothing that makes me happier than throwing ball with my little guy, watching a game with him, talking with him about how to be a good person and hearing him tell me he loves his daddy. You can't buy that. You cannot buy pure and absolute love. So if I miss out on a baller lifestyle so that I can make sure he's got every advantage I can afford, so be it.

[flairon]

Really that only works out to about 11,111/yr or about $925/mo or about $30 a day for the next 18 years.

And i have to call bull**** on $200,000. THere are and alwaqys have been people that raise children with just barely above nothing. You probably can spend 200k if you need all the best baby stuff and the kids play 5-6 sports or whatever. But just to squeeze out a kid and raise it for 18 years, i REALLY doubt it costs $200k

[Manc33]

But then they'll support my wrinkly old ass in the retirement home.

You think the kids of today will do that? You're way off.

[Lolzing]

Bunch of FA miscers saying they don't want kids. You *******s can't even get a woman, so you make yourselves feel better about your FA status by saying no thanx Jeff to kids.

Lawl

This

OP is just a sad kunt

[AndyKerrison]

Money is nothing. In the end no one will care how much you had. It will be about how many people loved you and how many people you.

Absolutely this!

Plus, if my genes were under-represented in the next generation, that's more or less a crime against humanity.

[flairon]

You think the kids of today will do that? You're way off.

What kids of today will do in the future is dictated by what parents of today teach them.

[Manc33]

You can pass on your lineage and not die a biological failure.

1. All the genes that created you already existed in the world before you were born.
Otherwise how could you have been born? So you're not "passing on" anything.

2. It only takes 6 generations (about 150 years) for ALL your descendants to have
less than 1% of "your" genes (that never were yours).

What kids of today will do in the future is dictated by what parents of today teach them.

You can't be with them 24 hours a day though, what about all the other kids at school that don't have such diligent parents and are influencing your child? You think they are going to tell you that stuff?

Its sending them off to school at 4 years old that fuks them up IMO. No wonder authorities want kids in school even younger than that. Some are still growing up asking questions.

[Hollowbox]

You think the kids of today will do that? You're way off.

If your kids don't you have no one to blame but yourself. Your kids will be the person you raised them to be.

[spk1996]

that's until they're 18 years old. but we all know most parents are still paying for their kids well after they turn 18 so it costs even more than $200K.

and what benefit do you get out of it in the end? a lot of families i know the sons/daughters rarely talk to their parents once they're all grown up. maybe visit a few times during the year on holidays and talk on the phone once in a while. is that seriously worth $200K per child? so if you have a couple of kids you could be potentially throwing away half a million dollars if you don't have a good relationship with them. imagine all the stuff you could do for yourself with an extra half mil that you didn't spend on raising a couple of kids.

That's just one of the reasons I'm never having children

[Manc33]

If your kids don't you have no one to blame but yourself. Your kids will be the person you raised them to be.

It isn't just you raising them! They spend about 6 hours a day at school amongst other kids (some with with asshat parents) and teachers.

The last thing a child will do is tell you what goes on between them and their friends at school. You don't tell them everything that goes on between you and your friends.

[cavymeister]

That number doesn't sound right. For my two kids, we don't spend $2000/month on. The house would have been bought regardless. I wouldn't have bought a van, but still would have bought some other car.

Per month
Health insurance: $200
Food: $300 (200 now then goes up to 400 later in life)
clothes: $60 ($720/12)
Fuel: $120
Birthday parties and gifts for the friends birthday parties: $80 ($960/12)
Christmas: $40 ($480/12)
Sports: $30 ($360/12 not nearly this much now, but will be a bit more than that later)
Out to eat: $40
Medicines/dr visits: $75
Extra power/water: $50 (daughter likes to use the hot water heater as a timer for how long she is in the shower)
Toys/buying extra crap for them: $25
Extra hygiene stuff/diapers earlier in life: $100 (Way over kill, but gotta throw it in)
Furniture: $37 ($4000*2/18/12)



$1157/month or $250,000 for two kids. And this isn't slumming it up, nor is it treating your kids like Paris Hilton. Sure it costs money, but it's just money.

[tattygun]

You can pass on your lineage and not die a biological failure.

This

There;s more to life than the net exchange of economic goods as a surplus to you OP.

And this.



Genuinely feel sorry for the brahs that have their heads so skewed that they'll deny themselves the joys of fatherhood.

[All-Star11]

Seems like a lot of non-parents speculating on costs ITT...

Edit: A lot of these 'huge' costs that some posters are mentioning: College, Cars, Insurance, etc

I dunno about you brahs, but I bought my own cars, paid my own insurance, paid for my own degree...

Too many little chits that go backpacking around the world when mommy and daddy pay for their chit...

My kids can work hard for what they want and I'll be there watch them succeed.

[gradtech17]

I want to have three kids so I better start saving now.

[tehfinkster]

11k a year? That's it?

I thought it would be more to be honest. Not that I want that kind of life yet but I thought it would be a lot more.

[All-Star11]

11k a year? That's it?

I thought it would be more to be honest. Not that I want that kind of life yet but I thought it would be a lot more.

Brah. I pay over 15k a year just for DAYCARE for 2 kids...
That's before I slap a diaper on their ass and send them there...

[GimpManlet]

Reading this thread makes me realize the USA is a really bad place to raise kids. Health insurance $200 a month? Doctor visits $75 a month? Daycare $700ish per child a month? That's an easy $500 a month more than it costs me. Y'all should move the **** out if you want kids. College here costs like $6k-$10k a year, including housing and food. If you send your kid to university by train everyday, you can get by with $3k a year. And they'll grow up not to be Americans as an added benefit (semi srs).

[DREAMChayser]

LOL! IF you actually have good genetics, you will find a stunning mate partner and continue to build your master race family, not all of us are obsessed with driving a nice car and being forever-alone.

[hardbrah69]

damn, parents had 4. tfw they gave up at least a million dollars to be parents

[anonymous]

Costs a hell of a lot more than $200k. Thought I read somewhere that it costs about $1mil until they are 18, which seems more accurate.

[KingIndicud]

The joy of having a family makes that 200k seem tiny.


I'm sure must miscers would rather have 1 million random people than either of those parents or brothers or sisters.

[brbgolf]

My kids are worth every penny. Truth is the money is the least of it. The time you put into building a good solid foundation with your kids it the most important. Kids go through stages, make mistakes, become a pita amend then come back to normalcy again. Love both my boys and my life is more complete with them. It is truly a very fulfilling feeling having raised 2 good quality human beings in such a crazy world.

One is 19 starting 2 year uni dropping him off Thursday and the other a junior in HS. Money bs kids, there is no question kids are worth it. Also, if,you don't have the money kids can be raised for less and if your a baller you can spend more.

Don't pass on kids Bc of $. Only,pass if you are not willing to put in the time to raise them properly. It takes a lot of time amd patients.

[Pinot]

that's until they're 18 years old. but we all know most parents are still paying for their kids well after they turn 18 so it costs even more than $200K.

and what benefit do you get out of it in the end? a lot of families i know the sons/daughters rarely talk to their parents once they're all grown up. maybe visit a few times during the year on holidays and talk on the phone once in a while. is that seriously worth $200K per child? so if you have a couple of kids you could be potentially throwing away half a million dollars if you don't have a good relationship with them. imagine all the stuff you could do for yourself with an extra half mil that you didn't spend on raising a couple of kids.

you have the wrong mindset; "what benefit do you get out of it"? That's a selfish attitude. Imagine if your parents thought the same thing.

Having children is a very fulfilling experience.

[tollyboy]

at the moment i would rather adopt a pet, teach it how to live n make it happy.
preferably a large garden for my dog to play.

ye, i think das it. still growing up myself though.
Than having the chance it's a daughter that's gonna get smashed at age 16, ****s my head up. And besides that there's a chance of having an unhealthy child, which i wouldn't want to wish to anyone.