Most moms and dads have to work just to pay for everything, and the endless taxes just compound the problem.
Many people are paying $1,000 to $2500 a month nowadays just for a monthly mortgage payment. This alone is crippling.
Add one or two car payments, taxes, food, kids, insurance, credit cards, and wammo, everyone is working around the clock...It's a tag team.
Kinda sad, and very stressful.
We've personally got out of all debt and plan on staying out of debt at all cost.
I really wonder if my kids can survive if I don't set them up with a house, etc.
time was when a college savings account might be what you saved for beyond the mortagage.
even if I'm fortunate enough to provide this for my kids... what the hey are the children
of those who can't afford that kind of look-ahead for them gonna do to survive?
that's what scares me.
Depends on what falls under the category of "everything". I agree wholeheartedly that taxes and mortgages are high, but when "everything" includes cable or dish tv, cell phones, newer model cars, brand new clothing, expensive food choices, eating out, vacations, etc. I lose a lot of sympathy.
I'm watching my brother and his wife daycare their infant cause they had to have two new cars and a $200,000 mortgage. She couldn't stand apartment living anymore, y'see. They go out, spend on clothes, etc.... They consider themselves without luxuries. It's a tragedy for that little boy who has hired help instead of a mom.
Nobody deserves their 'stuff' more than a child deserves a mother.