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Cawlin  Posts: 1,759
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Things change a lot when there are kids involved.
That's true. If there are no kids, it's pure luxury to not have both people in a marriage/cohabitation scenario working at bringing in cash.
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the_great_intex posted:
lol, no way it is $96k/year. Cleaning a house is difficult but if done routinely takes maybe an hour a week? If that? Depends on how much everyone else are slobs, though
Maintaining a house and family isn't a full time job, especially if kids are of school age
You are funny. 
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Jorrdan  Posts: 293
Registered: 2001-10-19 07:31:24
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I think the numbers are inflated as well. However, I think a price needs to be put on them. Because, inevitably, she will be divorced and the man will say..."  ou want half my money for what? You didn't do anything." Meanwhile, she will have sacrificed her education, her body, and her time "not doing anything" for years. While her soon to be ex husband expects her to go live in poverty now as a result.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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Jorrdan posted:
I think the numbers are inflated as well. However, I think a price needs to be put on them. Because, inevitably, she will be divorced and the man will say..." ou want half my money for what? You didn't do anything." Meanwhile, she will have sacrificed her education, her body, and her time "not doing anything" for years. While her soon to be ex husband expects her to go live in poverty now as a result.
Courts are generally handling this quite well nowadays in most cases.
With that said though, putting a value on these services is a very labor intensive prospect. In the region where I live, most families with two working parents are makning under $70k/year total. Costs are *mostly* relative for things like child care and other services such as cleaning and whatnot.
If the job of homemaker is worth $30k/year in a place like San Fran with 2 kids included, then it's worth $12k/year where I live...
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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I was married for 13 years. I think she made me a sammich. Once. |
Jorrdan Posts: 293
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Cawlin posted:
Jorrdan posted:
I think the numbers are inflated as well. However, I think a price needs to be put on them. Because, inevitably, she will be divorced and the man will say..." ou want half my money for what? You didn't do anything." Meanwhile, she will have sacrificed her education, her body, and her time "not doing anything" for years. While her soon to be ex husband expects her to go live in poverty now as a result.
Courts are generally handling this quite well nowadays in most cases.
With that said though, putting a value on these services is a very labor intensive prospect. In the region where I live, most families with two working parents are makning under $70k/year total. Costs are *mostly* relative for things like child care and other services such as cleaning and whatnot.
If the job of homemaker is worth $30k/year in a place like San Fran with 2 kids included, then it's worth $12k/year where I live...
Right. I have found that unless you are upper middle class, in my area, it is often cheaper for one parent to stay home because of the cost of child care. It is absurd here.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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Jorrdan posted:
Cawlin posted:
Jorrdan posted:
I think the numbers are inflated as well. However, I think a price needs to be put on them. Because, inevitably, she will be divorced and the man will say..." ou want half my money for what? You didn't do anything." Meanwhile, she will have sacrificed her education, her body, and her time "not doing anything" for years. While her soon to be ex husband expects her to go live in poverty now as a result.
Courts are generally handling this quite well nowadays in most cases.
With that said though, putting a value on these services is a very labor intensive prospect. In the region where I live, most families with two working parents are makning under $70k/year total. Costs are *mostly* relative for things like child care and other services such as cleaning and whatnot.
If the job of homemaker is worth $30k/year in a place like San Fran with 2 kids included, then it's worth $12k/year where I live...
Right. I have found that unless you are upper middle class, in my area, it is often cheaper for one parent to stay home because of the cost of child care. It is absurd here.
Yeah there really are some seemingly inexplicable variations in those costs from region to region. Where I live you can get after school care for one child for $65-75/week and full work day baby sitting for around $125/week per child. Meanwhile that same daycare is upwards of 4 or 5 times that much just a hundred miles away...
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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Daycare is ridiculously expensive.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
Daycare is ridiculously expensive.
That's what happens when you want bonded, licensed, certified, insured, witnessed, baby sitters with references and who have three adults present every second of the day to make sure everything is OK...
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
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Cawlin posted:
Sin_of_Onin posted:
Daycare is ridiculously expensive.
That's what happens when you want bonded, licensed, certified, insured, witnessed, baby sitters with references and who have three adults present every second of the day to make sure everything is OK...
I have no problem with any of that.
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