The price of children

[mespock]

The price of children

This is just too good not to pass on to all. Something absolutely positive for a change. I have seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice.

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock!
That doesn't even touch college tuition.

But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into:

$8,896.66 a year,

$741.38 a month, or

$171.08 a week.

That's a mere $24.24 a day!

Just over a dollar an hour.

 

[mespock]

Still, you might think the best financial advice is, "Don't have children if you want to be rich." Actually, it is just the opposite.

What do you get for your $160,140?

Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
Glimpses of God every day.

Giggles under the covers every night,
More love than your heart can hold.
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
A hand to hold, usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
A partner for blowing bubbles,
flying kites.

Someone to laugh yourself silly with,
no matter what the boss said on how your stocks performed that day.

For $160,140, you never have to grow up.

You get to finger-paint,
carve pumpkins, play hide-and-seek,
catch lightning bugs,
and never stop believing in Santa Claus.
You have an excuse to keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh, watching Saturday morning cartoons,
going to Disney movies,
and wishing on stars.

You get to frame rainbows,
hearts,
and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas,
hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.


For $160,140, there is no gre ater bang for your buck.

You get to be a hero just for retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
taking the training wheels off a bike,
removing a splinter, filling a wading pool,
coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs,
and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.
Or watching an "All American" stand on the Podium.

You get a front row seat to history to witnes the first step,
first word,
first bra oh and don't for get the thong thing ahhhh,
first date,
and first time behind the wheel.

You get to be immortal.

You get another branch dded to your family tree,
and if you're lucky,
a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren.

You get an education in psychology,
nursing,
crime and justice,
communications,
and human sexuality that no college can match.

In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God.

You have all the power to heal a boo-boo,
scare away the monsters under the bed,
patch a broken heart, police a slumber party,
ground them forever, and love them without limits,
So . . one day they will like your love without counting the cost.

That is quite a deal for the price!

Love and enjoy your children and grandchildren

 

[Jibit]

or you just pay child support

 

[MrScalia]

How much for the little girl? How much for the women?

Jake Blues

What?

Father

Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters... sell them to me. Sell me your children.

Jake Blues