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Now I\u2019m sure any long-time parent who reads such a statement is probably like, duh no shit, and I\u2019m not going to refute it reads as one of the more obvious statements that can probably be said, and most definitely nothing I haven\u2019t already said in my life a hundred-fold by now.<\/span><\/p>\n But in my latest moment of despair, where I was trying to wrangle my two kids, where #1 is sick and screaming for attention, while #2 was getting into shit she shouldn\u2019t be getting, all while I was logged into a virtual meeting at work because I\u2019m still on the clock, but completely incapable of paying any attention to it, and the sitter had already gone home for the day because all paid help watches the clock, I just stood there for a few seconds, and the words formulated in my head, at just how shitty things can be sometimes and that I\u2019m living at a very unsustainable pace, way longer than I probably should have, seeing as how my resolve crumbles so frequently sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n All I could really think about was just how impossible it truly is to raise children without help, not just from a metaphorical standpoint, but how it truly is from all other ways, especially in this current state of the world where inflation is murder, greed and white people are endlessly fucking the country and America is still \u2018Murica.<\/span><\/p>\n Like you hear about couples where one person quits their job to be a full-time parent; yeah, that shit is impossible now, and probably wasn\u2019t really that ideal in any previous points in time, because unless one half of a couple makes a ridiculous, white man amount of money, let\u2019s just say $175-200K plus annually, most American parents probably can\u2019t afford to raise a child on top of surviving in a middle-class or better setting.<\/span><\/p>\n Everything is far too expensive for the average parents to reduce to a single income without some tremendous pain, and expect to live life remotely comfortably.\u00a0 Therefore, they must both work.\u00a0 At least that\u2019s the case between my wife and I, our combined income isn\u2019t that bad, but it\u2019s completely dependent on both of us working full-time in order to make ends meet, however that results in us requiring child care, which quite literally half of my paycheck goes towards every single month, because child care is fucking expensive and not at all that great, but still a very necessary evil to have to endure.<\/span><\/p>\n And let\u2019s not even really bother to analyze single parents, they most certainly need all the help they can get, be it childcare or free care from family.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, as obvious as it is, more so put out in writing, is that it is truly impossible for any family unit to raise a child without any help.\u00a0 It\u2019s often popularly said that it takes a village to raise a kid, to which truer words can\u2019t really be said, but it just isn\u2019t possible for those to do so without said village.\u00a0 Logistically, mathematically, financially, there just isn\u2019t a way to do it without some third party hands getting involved somewhere along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now I\u2019m sure any long-time parent who reads such a statement is probably like, duh no shit, and I\u2019m not going to refute it reads as one of the more obvious statements that can probably be said, and most definitely nothing I haven\u2019t already said in my life a hundred-fold by now. 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