If you can't afford diapers, you can't afford a baby.
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I just read this online and thought this would be an interesting topic for discussion.
What do you think?
No it is not. That is called poor planning and irresponsibility. Welfare is for those who have a tragedy arise, for example a parent dies in an accident or contracts a disease, not just hot to trot, could not control animal impulses and decided to let other people pay their bills because they are lazy.
Quoting secondboy2012:
That's what welfare is for lol
Your statement is incorrect-BREASTMILK can be substituted with FORMULA. Breastmilk is the natural, normal, free way to feed a baby. Formula is a man-made, factory made expensive choice.
Baby food can be inexpensive, also. I made both my daughter and son's baby food, from organic fruits and veggies. Doing so added $20 a month to my grocery bill, and once they were ready for table foods, I just gave them what we were eating. For the first year, they receive most of their nutrition from breastmilk, anyway.
While I do agree that children are expensive, formula is not a necessity, rather a luxury. Very, very rarely is formula a requirement; there are also wet nurses and donor milk that are options before formula should be considered, especially if you're financially strapped. Wet nurses and donor milk can both be free or very, very low cost. Milk banks are much more expensive.
You will not change my mind on this, I promise you.
Quoting ElitestJen:
Quoting audreesmama:I disagree about formula, but agree with the rest. Insurance is a necessity, as are clothes, diapers, wipes...
Quoting ElitestJen:Most people can afford just diapers. However, if you can't afford formula, health insurance, clothes, diapers, etc. all at the same time - then you can't afford a baby.
Why? Formula can be substituted with breastmilk, but eventually that child is going to need to intake something else that doesn't come from your body. Formula --> baby food ---> real food.
Oh...and they don't eat less and it doesn't get cheaper as they get older. If you cannot afford the needs of an infant, you cannot afford a child.
Quoting ramonafrog:
Food stamps...dontcha know...
Quoting ElitestJen:
Quoting Anonymous:
I can't afford formula. That's why I breastfed :P
Quoting ElitestJen:Most people can afford just diapers. However, if you can't afford formula, health insurance, clothes, diapers, etc. all at the same time - then you can't afford a baby.
What are you going to do with the baby needs more than milk? Starve him because you can't afford to feed him?
And this is how people should be living today. If you can't afford things on your own dime, you should make do or do without. Sadly, the federal government has stepped in and turned many people into caged animals just waiting for their foodstamp money thrown to them.
Quoting lucsch:Think back to Ma from Little House. Her family ate beans and cornbread. They lived in cold, drafty houses, sometimes with a dirt floor. She would recycle fabric until it just didn't have any thread left. LOL Despite all of that, they were a happy family, if Mrs. Wilder didn't stretch the truth too much.
I'm on WIC...it's only supplemental, they don't give enough to cover an entire month. DH and I both work, except right now with me being out due to just having my DD money is tighter then it'd be if I was back at work. Once I'm back at work I'll have to go in for another evaluation to see if I still qualify (which I more then likely won't). I do not have Medicaid/SNAP/Cash benefits. We get healthcare through DH's employer, pay our deductibles & co-pay's out of pocket. We pay for our own food and our own utilities and so on. So be it Welfare or not, I'm glad to say I come from a 2 income household and with the exception of 95% of her formula, we do it on our own and are not milking the system like a lot of people do.
Quoting Anonymous:
Using real diapers that you wash is a good idea, even if you can afford the paper and lawn treatment filled one. They have to be changed more often as you actually know when they are wet, but skin can breathe and there is no daiper rash.
Still for people who think Medicaid, WIC, etc is taking care of their own baby, IT IS NOT, it is welfare pure and simple.
People who can not afford baby food, medical care and clothes should not be in the reproducing business, and kids get more expensive the older they are!
Quoting ramonafrog:
Food stamps...dontcha know...
Quoting ElitestJen:
Quoting Anonymous:
I can't afford formula. That's why I breastfed :P
Quoting ElitestJen:Most people can afford just diapers. However, if you can't afford formula, health insurance, clothes, diapers, etc. all at the same time - then you can't afford a baby.
What are you going to do with the baby needs more than milk? Starve him because you can't afford to feed him?
LOL Right. My bad.
How? Insurance premiums are an additional $24/mo for my son, and a $20 copay per appointment. The birth alone had a $200 copay. His first year's medical expenses, given just routine appointments, will cost over $800. His life insurance is an additional $10/mo.
Are you not paying health insurance and copays?
Quoting First_One_8_18:
My baby is going to cost me exactly $60 for the first year_ $5/month for his life insurance.
Im exclusively nursing him for a year, besides a bite or two of whatever I'm eating and I'm using cloth that I've had for years for diapers.
It's when they get older that they get expensive!
leaving baby alone while i do laundry?