We’re about to have our sixth child, live on well below a $100K salary and I stay at home to teach the kids. We have NEVER taken any government assistance even though we’ve qualified a few times. When money gets tight we become more frugal. Our lifestyle is not popular with the materialistic, must have the latest fad crowd but we’re a happy bunch. You are implying that this family gets help based on nothing but your own opinion.
It’s just math Samiam. Check the average salaries of private school teachers. He’s doing very well in that arena if he’s making $50,000, not $100,00. Chances are good he makes well below $50,000.
Think about it, you say that things are tight with 6 kids making less than $100k. Double the number of kids and halve the income, and tell me if you still think that this family isn’t on assistance.
Again, I’d be happy to be wrong, but given the numbers, someone is going to have to show me. The benefit of the doubt is overwhelmed given the math.
I’m so happy you’re able to have this large family and make it, even if you have to pinch pennies.
I love when I see people have large families these days, it’s so rare.
There are some, I remember a neighbor, she had 7 kids and her husband up and left, wonderful woman. Yes, she was on the dole BUT I would not begrudge one penny given to that woman, that’s what welfare should be for, there is no way she could have worked and paid enough for child care for her kids. She played the organ at church, she was a wonderful mother and all her kids grew up to be normal, productive citizens.
My only wish is that cases like this were taken care of locally through churches and local funds, any time the federal government gets involved, total waste of taxpayer money is involved.