Re: "Want to be middle-class? Don't have kids."

>I'm too lazy to analyze this - how many
> here think the author needs to read Amy
 >Dacyczyn's book? 


>Or maybe her friend is right and can't
> afford to have kids. Where is it written 
>that everyone must procreate?

Having or not having kids is certainly a big decision, financially and
otherwise.  But I believe the OP's point was probably what I gathered
from the article, which was that the author seemed to have a typical
yuppie mndset that a good parent simply *must* buy all the latest
expensive clothes, toys and gadgets, so therefore would practically have
to be a millionaire to afford a child in this day and age, especially
since everyone knows it's "impossible" for a family to live on one
salary, so expensive child care is factored in as well.

Amy's "Tightwad Gazette" article quite nicely debunked that theory,
showing how many things parents think are necessary are either available
much cheaper, have less expensive alternatives, or in some cases, are
totally unnecsessary. 


Diva