Before my oldest was out of daycare we were paying almost $3000 a month for both of them, just for daycare alone. Add things like, dance classes, swim lessons, food, transportation, medical expenses, etc. I wouldn’t doubt it was double that. Now that the oldest is out of daycare, It’s dropped a lot, down to $1250 a month. However, it sure doesn’t feel like it. It would seem that as soon as one kid exits daycare, capital has a crisis and now costs for shit have doubled negating the reduction in daycare costs.
There’s a class assumption here. Families that are in a position to cover their kids’ college costs are going to be far wealthier than average, we’re talking maybe richest 20%.
absolutely, there are a lot of assumptions for pricing a child tho. Some families have relatives to watch the kids, others gotta slap $1500 USD/month so that’s quite a few years of a minimum of 18k per year.
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This is a mean of $1500-2000 a month. I wonder what the 25% and 75% intervals are.
There’s a Calvin and Hobbes strip where the dad cites the number as being $180k, and that would have been in the 80s or 90s.
The Simpsons intro had Maggie scan at $847.63, which was then the monthly estimate for raising a child.
Before my oldest was out of daycare we were paying almost $3000 a month for both of them, just for daycare alone. Add things like, dance classes, swim lessons, food, transportation, medical expenses, etc. I wouldn’t doubt it was double that. Now that the oldest is out of daycare, It’s dropped a lot, down to $1250 a month. However, it sure doesn’t feel like it. It would seem that as soon as one kid exits daycare, capital has a crisis and now costs for shit have doubled negating the reduction in daycare costs.
Grew up in the aughts and including college I was hearing around a milly
There’s a class assumption here. Families that are in a position to cover their kids’ college costs are going to be far wealthier than average, we’re talking maybe richest 20%.
absolutely, there are a lot of assumptions for pricing a child tho. Some families have relatives to watch the kids, others gotta slap $1500 USD/month so that’s quite a few years of a minimum of 18k per year.