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<blockquote data-quote="bubsdad" data-source="post: 530046" data-attributes="member: 21830"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">The Price of Children!</span></span></span></span></strong></strong> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family. Talk about price shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">But $160,140.00 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into:</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* $8,896.66 a year,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* $741.38 a month, </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* $171.08 a week.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* A mere $24.24 a day!</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* Just over a dollar an hour.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">Still, you might think the best financial advice is: don't have children if you</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">want to be 'rich.' Actually, it is just the opposite.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">What do you get for your $160,140.00?</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* Naming rights. First, middle, and last!</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* Glimpses of God every day.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* Giggles under the covers every night.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* More love than your heart can hold.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* A partner for blowing bubbles and flying kites.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">your stocks performed that day.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">For $160,140..00, you never have to grow up. You get to:</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* finger-paint,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* carve pumpkins,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* play hide-and-seek,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* catch lightning bugs, </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">You have an excuse to:</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* watch Saturday morning cartoons,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* go to Disney movies, and</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* wish on stars.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">For a mere $24.24 a day, there is no greater bang for your buck.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">You get to be a hero just for:</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* taking the training wheels off a bike,</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* removing a splinter,</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* filling a wading pool,</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">* coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">You get a front row seat in history to witness the:</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"> * First step,</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"> * First word,</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"> * First date, </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"> * First time behind the wheel.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">You get to be immortal. <u>You get another branch added to your family tree,</u> and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great- </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">communications, and human sexuality that no college can match..</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren & great-grandchildren!!!!!!!</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">It's the best investment you'll ever make!!!!!!!!!</span></span></p> </p> </p> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"> </p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bubsdad, post: 530046, member: 21830"] [INDENT][INDENT][CENTER][CENTER][B][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]The Price of Children![/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/B][COLOR=black][COLOR=black] [/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [CENTER][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family. Talk about price shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition.[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]But $160,140.00 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into: * $8,896.66 a year, * $741.38 a month, * $171.08 a week. * A mere $24.24 a day! * Just over a dollar an hour.[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]Still, you might think the best financial advice is: don't have children if you want to be 'rich.' Actually, it is just the opposite.[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]What do you get for your $160,140.00? * Naming rights. First, middle, and last! * Glimpses of God every day. * Giggles under the covers every night. * More love than your heart can hold. * Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs. * Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies. * A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate. * A partner for blowing bubbles and flying kites. * Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]For $160,140..00, you never have to grow up. You get to: * finger-paint, * carve pumpkins, * play hide-and-seek, * catch lightning bugs, You have an excuse to: * keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh, * watch Saturday morning cartoons, * go to Disney movies, and * wish on stars.[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]For a mere $24.24 a day, there is no greater bang for your buck.[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [CENTER][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]You get to be a hero just for: * retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof, * taking the training wheels off a bike, * removing a splinter, * filling a wading pool, * coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and You get a front row seat in history to witness the: * First step, * First word, * First date, * First time behind the wheel.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]You get to be immortal. [U]You get another branch added to your family tree,[/U] and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great- grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match..[/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!![/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=black][COLOR=black]Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren & great-grandchildren!!!!!!! It's the best investment you'll ever make!!!!!!!!![/COLOR][/COLOR][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER][/CENTER] [/INDENT][/INDENT] [CENTER][CENTER][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [/CENTER][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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