Are any of you paying for daycare?

you phrased it as if the decision didn't have really big monetary impacts.

Didn't mean to phrase it that way, clearly there are big money issues. But to me, part of raising children well means having sufficient funds to not require the kid to go to daycare. If you cannot support your family on a single income, or can't save enough to take off from work while you raise them, then, again to ME, you are not ready for children.

I'm fully in support of people who want to work, and who don't want to take time out of their career to raise children - but then I don't understand why they want children. Again, why have a kid if you don't want to be the person who does the primary work in guiding them as infants and their first few formative years? It's not like you get a lot of quality free time with an infant when you are at work all day.

Are single parents just supposed to have no income for their children's formative years?

Ignoring widows, I think single parenthood is a disservice to children. I recognize they have to work as a single parent, but that doesn't make the kid going to daycare OK.

And I know I'm going to get downvoted again, but I'll welcome discussion on whether pursuing FI at the cost of putting your kids in daycare is a good strategy FOR THE KIDS.

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