The importance of money

[footballtim]

When I was young, people always asked me if I was interested in having children.

My answer was always the same. "Not unless I can provide for a child the way my parents provided for me."

I know that there are more important things in life than money, but I did not want my child to grow up in a struggling family, and that is what I would have had because of the vocational errors I made when I was young.

My brother made great vocational choices, and he had four children. I am sure he was thinking the same way I was as a child. He just made the right choices and I made the wrong ones.

 

[chea]

Well, I think it's important for a child to have a stable home. Which means at least one of the parents needs to have a steady source of income. But I think the amount of attention you give to your child always trumps the amount of money of material possessions he/she has growing up.

 

[footballtim]

It is true, the amount of attention a parent gives the child is crucial. But if I had a child, I would not have been able to give them sufficient attention, because I would have always been busy working to make up for my low wages.

We probably would have had to live in a really bad place, and eat really cheap unhealthy food, which is what I did not want to subject a child to. That is why I chose not to have children.

 

[youngone]

I do think you can be a good parent and raise your children well with a limited income. However, I do think you need to be relatively financially secure to raise a child, but how many people can say they are financially secure nowadays?

 

[Andersson]

I am not sure anyone really has enough of everything for a child but there is a big difference between being spoon fed everything in life and learning to work a little for it. My kids did the later and they grew up just fine.

 

[Don]

We always say that if we had kept waiting until we had "enough" money, we never would have had kids. I think it is important to be able to provide them with a stable environment, but money or the lack thereof, shouldn't make it or break it when it comes to having children.