[lmr]

My wife and I have 3 children. We have lived on as little as 20,000 a year on one income, this was as recently as 5 years ago. We owned our home and done without most things, but we always had food and paid the bills. My wife has been able to stay home and raise the kids while I work.

The problem with people these days is that they do want a BIGGER HOUSE, A NICE CAR, GREAT VACATIONS ANNUALLY OR SEMIANNUALLY as well SPENDING MONEY to dine out on a regular basis. People want to live above their means, so both couples work, sometimes 2 jobs apiece to afford it all. I believe it to be a question of priorities.

What do you want out of life?

I've got great well-behaved children that make good grades in school and who are very close to my wife and I. It also gave me more motivation to work harder at my ONE job and now I run the office and make over $45,000 per year. After my youngest is out of kindergarten, my wife can go to school and become a nurse. We are used to living on one income and now I have enough money to send her to school. By the time we are both well established in our careers, We will have MORE than most people our age and we will be better off and closer to our children. We made sacrifices early so we could be better off later.

Also, none of our children were left in the back-seat of our car to die.

[Conservababe]

I wonder why we seldom hear of parents who forget their children at home in their rush instead of being forgotten in the vehicle?

Is it because they would be charged with child abandonment, without question, if they left them at home? But, they would be exonerated if they were just forgetful and killed their child by leaving him/her in a vehicle?