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Personal Finance and Investing

PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. This is astonishing:

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Thu Jun 30, 2022, 12:42 AM

Jun 2022

Poverty rates are higher among adults without children than they are among older parents. Why? Is it that very poor people simply don't have kids? Or that children help out parents and keep them out of poverty?

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How Much Money Do You Really Save by Not Having Kids? [View all] question everything May 2022 OP

I was able to retire at age 52. multigraincracker May 2022 #1

+1.. mitch96 Jun 2022 #6

Having children would have sunk me Random Boomer Oct 2022 #8

I think you'll be fine. multigraincracker Oct 2022 #9

If you don't have kids, your money is simply spent on non kid things. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2022 #2

A comment, which I snipped, was that having a kid to take care of you question everything May 2022 #3

True, especially because there are no guarantees PoindexterOglethorpe May 2022 #4

Exactly Rebl2 Jun 2022 #5

This is astonishing: PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2022 #7

Post removed Post removed Oct 2022 #10