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Originally Posted by shermanator
My parents say that you're never really financially ready to have kids, you just do it.
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Back in the day, people got married at 22, bought their first house at 23 and started having kids. I know houses are much more expensive today and all that jazz, but my parents and their generation expected to be poor when they started a family. You never saw young kids on planes because people with young families couldn't afford to fly. The difference is that today people have usually experienced 10 or more years of not being poor as adults before they have kids. So it feels like a huge step back.