\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Why do people say having a baby is expensive?

We've gotten almost all the equipment necessary for under 50...
legally female father
  03/15/26
you're probably not planning on sending them to expensive da...
:-P
  03/15/26
Taxpayers pay for the broke minority kids with free food, ho...
tolerable, boyfriend-grade penis
  03/15/26
of course but i assume op is talking about how expensive it ...
:-P
  03/15/26
Everything except “car seat, stroller, and high chair&...
Sex & Love Addict
  03/15/26
$300 a month is a third of what my wife spends on eBay, so I...
legally female father
  03/16/26
Most families have both parents working which mean childcare...
Fyre festival founder
  03/15/26
This is one of those things people lie about kind of The...
cowgod
  03/15/26
Standard midwit discourse is always “poor people have ...
Oh, you travel?
  03/15/26
If you build enough character your paycheck goes negative an...
cowgod
  03/15/26
...
bomb iver
  03/16/26
wtf is ORM? "overrepreseented minority"? ---- rofl...
AZNgirl blockading Strait of AZNMen
  03/16/26
Don't forget the legal fees when your toddler goes running o...
Junko Enoshima
  03/15/26
My legal insurance covers all misdemeanors for $10 a month s...
legally female father
  03/16/26
It's the childcare and health insurance that are expensive. ...
Lab Diamond Dallas Trump
  03/15/26
Most millennial and Gen Z women refuse to stay home and want...
tolerable, boyfriend-grade penis
  03/16/26
(Guy living in 1980)
Fyre festival founder
  03/17/26
I'm thankful that my premium will only go from $30 to $100. ...
legally female father
  03/17/26
If you're poor and getting a big obamacare subsidy then you ...
Lab Diamond Dallas Trump
  03/17/26
Cr, and once they start eating "solid food," you c...
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  03/17/26
it's the daycare/childcare costs
.,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,.
  03/16/26
Get a SAHM.
Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband
  03/17/26
...
legally female father
  03/17/26
they're mostly gays talking about the surrogacy cost
peeface
  03/17/26
...
legally female father
  03/17/26
You won't recognize it at all until you look back 9 years in...
the walter white of this generation (walt jr.)
  03/17/26
...
legally female father
  03/17/26
it's a waste of time. very expensive timewise and the benefi...
Oaxacan crime rates
  03/17/26


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 6:58 PM
Author: legally female father

We've gotten almost all the equipment necessary for under 500 dollars used through Facebook Marketplace (all very nice things). The only things we have left are the car seat, stroller, and high chair. Food seems cheap. I WFH and my wife stays at home. How is this supposed to be expensive?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746339)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:01 PM
Author: :-P (gunneratttt)

you're probably not planning on sending them to expensive day care, prep schools, etc. dead broke nigs have tons of kids. it's not necessarily expensive, but it is expensive in the way many plan to raise kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746348)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:03 PM
Author: tolerable, boyfriend-grade penis

Taxpayers pay for the broke minority kids with free food, housing, school, clothes etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746353)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:07 PM
Author: :-P (gunneratttt)

of course but i assume op is talking about how expensive it is for the parents directly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746362)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:03 PM
Author: Sex & Love Addict

Everything except “car seat, stroller, and high chair“ lol

You can get it done for $1500, but it’s just getting started.

No other nursery expenses? Paint, etc.?

I think you’re delusional. But the real costs don’t start until you need childcare. But your monthly nut is at least $300 for food/diapers,etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746354)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 16th, 2026 11:57 PM
Author: legally female father

$300 a month is a third of what my wife spends on eBay, so I think it'll be fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750034)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:10 PM
Author: Fyre festival founder

Most families have both parents working which mean childcare costs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746366)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:12 PM
Author: cowgod

This is one of those things people lie about kind of

They arent talking about the cost of having kids and feeding them. They’re talking about the cost of a Curated experience. No blacks. No ORM, god willing. And no Scummy character building bullshit.and the kid not raising themselves with screens or latchkey Scumbag shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746370)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:15 PM
Author: Oh, you travel? ( )

Standard midwit discourse is always “poor people have tons of kids, why can’t you”. It apparently never occurs to them that many poor people are not smart and don’t make sound judgments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746375)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:26 PM
Author: cowgod

If you build enough character your paycheck goes negative and job interviews are recursive in an extremely complicated way like in the movie Tenet where it ends before it started. The UMC want kids with No Character who are entitled as fuck but also obsequious towards their betters. Maintain the bubble at all costs, like you know how RSF is extremely dumb but doesn’t notice — that’s a bubble dweller. He votes democrat btw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746399)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 16th, 2026 9:13 AM
Author: bomb iver



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49747516)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 16th, 2026 9:21 AM
Author: AZNgirl blockading Strait of AZNMen

wtf is ORM? "overrepreseented minority"? ---- rofl so u birdshits now want to keep ur dumbfurk future methhead kids away from nowags and nowigs who will out perform them? ljl at u losers, u cant handle the tandoor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49747526)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:15 PM
Author: Junko Enoshima

Don't forget the legal fees when your toddler goes running off down a busy beach and a cop finds him 15 minutes later and decides you weren't Parenting well enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746376)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 16th, 2026 11:59 PM
Author: legally female father

My legal insurance covers all misdemeanors for $10 a month so I should be fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750038)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 15th, 2026 7:27 PM
Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump

It's the childcare and health insurance that are expensive. Direct costs of raising a kid with a SAHM if the kid stays healthy and nothing goes wrong are cheap. Closer to having a pet than what you'd think having an actual human being would cost.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49746404)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 16th, 2026 9:06 AM
Author: tolerable, boyfriend-grade penis

Most millennial and Gen Z women refuse to stay home and want to be office workers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49747501)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:58 AM
Author: Fyre festival founder

(Guy living in 1980)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750177)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:03 AM
Author: legally female father

I'm thankful that my premium will only go from $30 to $100. I think that should be offset by the tax credit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750044)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 3:12 AM
Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump

If you're poor and getting a big obamacare subsidy then you don't really pay more, and the same is usually true if you have insurance through a BIGCORP employer.

however, if you are buying full freight obamacare insurance without a subsidy, the cost is insane. And to add a kid to my small-law insurance (employer covers mine 100% but I'd pay 100% of any family members added) is like $900 per month per kid. That's literally the direct cost to the firm.

So basically, my wife is stuck working at a BIGCORP employer since it would be $2700/month to insure her and two kids through my job, or slightly less for a much shittier obamacare policy.

she pretty much can't be a SAHM right now because of this. I have to retire at the same time as her so we can slum it with almost-free subsidized obamacare, but I want to stay in the game and save up for another couple of years before I do that. I have like $4500 coming off my monthly nut in the next year or so from getting house and cars fully paid off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750255)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:12 AM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois)

Cr, and once they start eating "solid food," you can basically feed them leftovers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750060)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 16th, 2026 9:15 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,.


it's the daycare/childcare costs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49747520)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:13 AM
Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois)

Get a SAHM.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750065)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:31 AM
Author: legally female father



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750107)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:21 AM
Author: peeface

they're mostly gays talking about the surrogacy cost

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750074)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:31 AM
Author: legally female father



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750108)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 12:51 AM
Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.)

You won't recognize it at all until you look back 9 years in, you have 5 kids of varying ages, and you're putting $230K/year on the CSR where you used to have $60K.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750159)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 1:17 AM
Author: legally female father



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750190)



Reply Favorite

Date: March 17th, 2026 3:31 AM
Author: Oaxacan crime rates

it's a waste of time. very expensive timewise and the benefit appears to be primarily for other people. the money probably isn't a big issue as there's some subsidy for slave rearing in the home

i'd much rather leer into other peoples' lives and demand that they have children and coerce them into it when they're not. bonus points if there's some economic or political utility from it. like say i'm a nigger like disco faggot or don nigger trump or some other goytard shithead and i've just scammed a bunch of people in a polity, if i can force the scammed into having the baggage of children i can more easily ensure their silence while also sapping them of any energies they might have to deploy against me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5846045&forum_id=2#49750257)