Childfree Living: Escaping Sky Rocketing Childcare Costs 

Me, cackling that I save $30-40k a year on childcare costs alone simply by not having kids. Defeat capitalism with this one neat trick.

Not even just child care. The overall cost of living and inflation is getting absurd. Wages never keep up with any of the inflation. Yet we still have people pushing others to have children, governments shaming people for decreasing birthrates and even banning abortion, banning birth control and axing sex education. How do they expect people to afford kids when they can hardly afford living themselves. It's dystopian AF. They'll subsidise meat, oil, the automotive industry, muskrat space LARPing, etc etc but they won't subsidise things that actually matter. It's messed up. I'm thankful every single day that I made the decision in my teens to be childfree. Thanks for another great video 😊💚

You never get your 'Return On Investment' for what you spend on kids! It ain't worth it!

Here in Turkiye, the situation is even dire. The very visible upper class all have a nanny (and a 'maid') and they compete about which country their nanny comes from. If it is x country, it's a 'oh that's unacceptable', but if the nanny happens to be from country y, 'wow, you are the best mom'. The kids are brought up by these English speaking nannies, even if the mother/father is a stay-at-home parent. The kids then go to private kindergarten, primary school, high school etc. Each costing 20.000-60.000 dollars a year. US dollars in Turkiye! Majority of the parents on the other side of the financial line, use grandparents and other family to take care of the kids. It is simply the way, you can't say no, you have to take care of family. No one dares talk about how annoying or exhausting that is. That's why I try to be as loud as possible about reminding people that not having children is also a choice. Plus people having kids in Istanbul ... I think they must be mentally unstable. The city is expecting devastating earthquakes. 600.000 buildings are expected to collapse, meaning city will be inhabitable, economy will collapse etc. Bringing a child into that? No thank you.

I've heard of soon-to-be moms joining the Daycare waitlist once they find out that they are pregnant. And even before that, i.e. planning to be pregnant.

In South Korea a mother of 2 was paying 4800 dollars a month in childcare costs.

I honestly feel like I was put on this earth to be a physician assistant and travel the world rather than being a mother. I’ve decided I will spend my money doing those things instead -sincerely a 23 year old gen z woman ✌🏾

I have over 100 reasons as to why I don’t want marriage nor children. This is actually my top reason for being single/unmarried and childfree, marriage and children are way too expensive. Children need food, clothes, diapers, toys, daycare, school supplies, leisure activities, field trips and college/university educations which would cost a huge amount of money. Also, romantic partnership is expensive because when you are dating and being in a relationship, you have to buy restaurant dinners, movie tickets, flowers and gifts. It is way too expensive to get married. I work a dead end job and I live with a roommate in a 2 bedroom apartment for cheap rent. I can barely take care of myself, so I am remaining single/unmarried and childfree and I have zero regrets at 40 years old.

this was the biggest issue for my husband and I, we just couldn't figure out how to make children work financially. (amongst other things) we both work full time, and it was either one of us quite and cut our income in half or pay $1600 + a month is childcare. I would also feel really weird having a child and expecting extended family to watch my kid. Also i know a ton of people who had a child and didn't expect how expensive they were and now live pay check to pay check. So I 100% agreed children are a luxury now, and I think people who are having kids in this economy and state of the world are crazy.......

Not having children is how I'm breaking my family's curse. Growing up, we skirted the edge of poverty. Heck, we still do. It didn't have to be that way. But certain people either kept getting pregnant or getting their wife pregnant. Which meant the rest of the family was stressed from struggling to support their bad decisions.

In AZ childcare costs $1900-2000 and with the salaries that jobs offer, you'd have to have two jobs or be a sahm only if your spouse is rich enough to provide which is unrealistic nowadays. More reasons to stay child-free IMO.

Awesome, thanks! And yes, my coworkers are literally paying almost as much for their kids' childcare per month as I do for my mortgage, and that's certainly not cheap here in DC! It's bonkers.

Yep since the pandemic everything has gone up im very happy that i am childfree because parents are truly struggling except if you are a wealthy person 💰💸

Not me using my credit card to pay for my two kids daycare 😢

This breaks my heart too much. I really love children and being a parent of 2-3 children was my dream. But I can barely afford taking care of my cat. Not wanting children is completely alright and logical considering all these costs. But not being able to afford it while wanting is very sad.

Two kids in childcare is $35-40k? That's literally my post-tax take-home pay. Forget rent and food LOL.

My daycare wouldn’t even let me use my one week vacation allowance for a funeral I have to attend. They said they needed more of a notice. I pay $2000 a month. And I’d love to tell the school owner how much of a B she is, but the school is really good and they have a waitlist. So I have to to take the loss, no credit no nothing. This doesn’t even count all the days my son has not attended because he got sick from daycare.

as much as I miss being child free, I don't know if its my area and health care being covered but the cost of having my four year old so far hasn't been that bad honestly.

So I do not care iam not haveing kids to lower the cost of daycare

10:52 guess you can say life, uh, finds a way.

No, sorry, this is going too far. I enjoy accumulating money and investing money on the stock market, but I would never change my family planning to amass funds more easily. Capitalism will not make me sacrifice reproduction.