hi all,

I just wondered how many people look at the
costing of having a baby at $A15,000

a year.... and how many they can afford,
if they realise this fact

basically I figured years ago, one needs at least
$15,000 a year for each person in the family

sometimes it surprises me how the financial side
of bringing up a family doesnt get a look in

should be a two year course at school..grin

JHH

JHH, I can’t help but go straight into baby-bonus-condemnation mode:

The size of the baby bonus has become quite significant, but it is still only a tiny fraction of the enormous cost of rearing a child.

It is higher for lower income-earners. If it is working at all to raise our fertility rate, it is doing so most significantly amongst low income earners… who can least afford to have a child, or another child.

The baby bonus sucks the battlers into having babies that they would not have otherwise had, and then being stuck with a much larger financial burden than they would have had…for about 18 years, which many of them can ill-afford.

The baby bonus is rotten to the core, without even considering the fact we should be reducing our population growth rather than striving to increase it!

Its master Peter Costello deserves a one-way trip to Mars over this policy. And so does Howard. And the instigator of this atrocious policy, Paul Keating, should accompany them.

hi all, and ludwig,

yep its strange,
no one costs the finances, when having children...
unbelievable....

the $A15,000 a year is about right, from my experience,
so any baby bonus is really just a carrot for some I guess...
not good for the soul ... though I dont know much about it..
will check

the business of legal marriage is a financial institution,
first.....otherwise one would not need the legal piece of paper ..grin
some courses on legal marriage, finances, and the whole
legal situation, should be a high school course..grin

has astounded me, the various legal marriage laws in other countries..

the united states has different ones for each state....
gruesome stuff....and there is no way I would get married in
the united states.... getting divorced there is also gruesome

sounds a bit strong eh but happens to be true

unbelievable in this day and age..... guess knowledge is power eh

JHH

"the costing of having a baby at $A15,000"

Still the really smart ones can have no income (read no earned income) & 6+ children.

Darwin was right- those best adapted contribute more offspring to the next generation...

JHH
I knew it when I saw the Title.
Dont tell me you are all going to start saying we should pay more to people to have kids.
For God sake what ever happend to people being reasonsible for their selves and the choices they make.
What type of people are Australians turning into.
Its sickening.
If you cant afford a kids- Dont have it

JHH

Jolanda?

Dont tell me you are all going to start saying we should pay more to people to have kids.
For God sake what ever happend to people being reasonsible for their selves and the choices they make.
What type of people are Australians turning into.
Its sickening.
If you cant afford a kid- Dont have it
In this day and age there is certainly no excuse.
Not like the poor women a hundred years ago.
If you look at it the moe you give welfare- the more its demanded.
When does it stop being welfare and become political blackmail.
You should complain.
Try being a farmer.