That’s a joke, right? When I looked it was only 500 to 620 a month per kid.
You have baby items to worry about, needing a crap ton of clothes (kids grow a LOT), having adequate nutrition (growth spurts too), school supplies, and more. If you’re already barely making ends meet, of COURSE you’ll struggle if you add another human being. Of course, cost of living also varies by area, as well as public transportation. Without that, you’d have to hope that you live near essentials like a family doctor, or you’d have to pony up even more money for a car and child seat.
If that’s not enough, you also get the fun of society looking down on your for “having kids before you were ready”. Many of us heard that from adults throughout the entire time we grew up. Why voluntarily walk into that? Nah. IF I ever have a kid, it won’t be untilI can guarantee that that doesn’t happen.
I don’t like where any of this is going. It was very very bad last time.
I think it also has to do with the overall bad mental health that a lot of people have. We don’t really have a lot of truly helpful solutions for most people.
Yeah, we have some facilities, but they can be inaccessible. If you’re in denial over struggling, you might think that the amount you drink is ok, even if that amount might not actually be ok. Someone might see mental health or addiction stereotypes and think to themselves “I’m not as bad as that guy”, and then that person believes that they are ok when they really aren’t ok.
If someone seriously doesn’t want to stick around, they’re probably not going to care about littering. If someone hates everyone, they’re probably more likely to feel ok stealing. If someone’s constantly in mental agony, they might look for anything to escape it. If you think dinner is completely ruined, you probably won’t fret about what drink you want to pair with it.
None of this makes the bad stuff ok, but I seriously think that bettering our country’s mental health services would go a very long way in culling addiction. What we’re doing now certainly isn’t working.
Horse armor.
…Is vanilla not a sweet flavour?
I like vanilla specifically because it’s really sweet. Do you maybe have different vanilla where you are, or are you referring to the extract?
Tbh vanilla is one of the first flavours I go for when I’m craving sugar. They nearly always go hand in hand.
The budget isn’t super tight, but nothing is open yet where I am. I’m just a bit hungry at the moment, because I missed eating for most of yesterday.
When the stores do open, I’ll be at work and will have to wait until after my shift to buy more food.
I hadn’t heard about this aspect of fire safety before today, so I figured I would see if anyone on here knew more about it. Thank you for responding!