Originally Posted by KathyMoore
I'm 100% sure I'm going to get in trouble for saying the following...
If you can't even afford to fly your monther-in-law in for the birth of her grandchild... you probably can't afford to have the child in the first place.
When I gave birth, I already had the college fund locked away in a non-revocable trust fund.
Wow...that is a very harsh statement. I think it would be kind to say congratulations and you wish them to have a healthy child.
Hey...who knows what people's financial circumstances are...I'm seen/heard about too many single uneducated girls chosing to have kids. Now that is something that is much more troubling then a married couple wishing to find an economical way to have their MIL out after the birth!
Just FYI...my husband and I dated for many years.. then got married. Because some of my friends were having trouble concieving, I thought it would be best to start trying right after the wedding. Well..needless to say I was not one of those people who had a problem getting pregnant.
We rented a townhouse until my daughter was 1 1/2 then bought our first house.
She is now 10 and has 2 sisters 7 and 2. All will be going to college and we live in a nice community etc.. so it is not always the best to wait until you are financially set. It may be too late to have kids at that point for some. If we had waited until now to start a family (we are financially stable at last!) my husband would be 63 when our
first kid graduated Highschool!!! ouch.