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Dual income no kids by Michelle Schroeder Gardner with Making Sense of Sense dot com.

I read a great post on Club Thrifty the other day titled Having Children an Expensive

Decision. The topic of children comes up a lot in my life and of course in the personal finance blog world.

People constantly ask us when we will have kids.

We've been together for over six years.

We've bought a house, have dogs, are kind of financially secure, etc.

So people don't seem to understand when we laugh at them and say that we are not ready at all.

Sort of unrelated, but I think of my dogs as my children for now.

My sister the other day, and she says this all the time, said,

I love your dogs.

And I say, well, you can take them whenever you want.

That's a joke, of course, and she always replies with replies with well they're nice to play with but I don't want any of the other responsibilities with that right now

This is how I feel I love kids, but right now I'm not ready for any other type of responsibility that comes along

with having children.

From Reuters in an article recently, quote, a middle-class family with a child born in 2011

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