Nation magazine: "Welcome to America, Where Parents Can’t Afford Diapers" (Congress, gasoline)
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If they can't even afford cheap, plastic diapers they have no business having a baby then.
Having babies while poor has become a very profitable family business. They live lavish lifestyles already, the last thing America needs is subsidized diapers for children and diaper banks.
Amazing, how senior citizens who worked all their life don't have diapers covered under Medicare which should be included but these poor women with children get a big windfall each month with only a tiny amount of that big, fat TANF check going to diapers.
It's all a bluff and desperate plea for higher taxes and more welfare so they can buy gold-rims for their Cadillac SUV's and trying to emulate Kardashian lifestyles.
Maybe they should use TANF money for diapers as opposed to manicures, gasoline for Cadillac Escalade's and steaks and lobsters.
As a single male without kids, I think it is interesting how many articles these days on pampered millennials who complain about child care being expensive and how diapers are expensive also.
When I was in college, one of my professors in a political science class asserted that "a decision as personal as whether to have a child should never be dictated by one's financial status"
https://www.thenation.com/article/we...fford-diapers/
If they can't even afford cheap, plastic diapers they have no business having a baby then.
Having babies while poor has become a very profitable family business. They live lavish lifestyles already, the last thing America needs is subsidized diapers for children and diaper banks.
Amazing, how senior citizens who worked all their life don't have diapers covered under Medicare which should be included but these poor women with children get a big windfall each month with only a tiny amount of that big, fat TANF check going to diapers.
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Plastic diapers...that's interesting.
But about those "big fat TANF checks", let's take a look at that. Family of 3 TANF cash grant 2017
Arizona $278 maximum of 12 months
Tennessee $185 maximum 60 months
Nevada $382 maximum 24 months
Diapers and wipes cost around $70 a month, that is more than a third of the TANF cash received by a family in Tennessee.
Why you chose to pick this to rant about is puzzling. You can talk till the cows come home about how the poor shouldn't have children but they do, and once they are born you can't stuff them back inside. The poor do not live "lavish lifestyles", you should get out more and find out how they actually live.
But about those "big fat TANF checks", let's take a look at that. Family of 3 TANF cash grant 2017
Arizona $278 maximum of 12 months
Tennessee $185 maximum 60 months
Nevada $382 maximum 24 months
Diapers and wipes cost around $70 a month, that is more than a third of the TANF cash received by a family in Tennessee.
Why you chose to pick this to rant about is puzzling. You can talk till the cows come home about how the poor shouldn't have children but they do, and once they are born you can't stuff them back inside. The poor do not live "lavish lifestyles", you should get out more and find out how they actually live.
Additionally, asking how are we gonna pay for it [diapers] is insulting when Congress just gave away 1.5 trillion in tax cuts and no one asked them how are they going to pay for it.
If they can't even afford cheap, plastic diapers they have no business having a baby then.
Having babies while poor has become a very profitable family business. They live lavish lifestyles already, the last thing America needs is subsidized diapers for children and diaper banks.
Amazing, how senior citizens who worked all their life don't have diapers covered under Medicare which should be included but these poor women with children get a big windfall each month with only a tiny amount of that big, fat TANF check going to diapers.
It's all a bluff and desperate plea for higher taxes and more welfare so they can buy gold-rims for their Cadillac SUV's and trying to emulate Kardashian lifestyles.
Maybe they should use TANF money for diapers as opposed to manicures, gasoline for Cadillac Escalade's and steaks and lobsters.
As a single male without kids, I think it is interesting how many articles these days on pampered millennials who complain about child care being expensive and how diapers are expensive also.
If you’re a male without kids then you don’t understand how much diapers and childcare cost. Childcare is extremely expensive
Not my kids. Not my problem. Use cloth diapers if you can’t afford disposables.
That's great if you have the $300 in start up costs to buy cloth diapers and the garments to cover the diaper AND assuming you have your own washer and dryer, there is little to no cost savings if you have to use a coin operated laundromat. Here's an estimate (from 2011) that the savings for one year using cloth diapers would be 27% but that is based on having your own washer and dryer. Prices have gone up since then for cloth and disposable diapers but I would guess that the difference in cost as a percent would still be close to the same. https://blog.mint.com/consumer-iq/cl...arison-102011/
PS I don't think anyone said it was your problem, did they?
Gerber Birdseye Flatfold Cloth Diapers, White, 10 Count - $6.50 on Amazon. Clips to hold them are 3 for $10. Waterproof diaper pants to put over the diapers run about $2.50 each.
So for around $100, you could have 100 diapers, a dozen waterproof pants, and several clips.
100 diapers should last around a week and at $8 for a load of laundry, after the initial $100 investment, you're looking at about $32/month
Disposable diapers run around $40/month for newborns, so not much savings there. Toddler diapers are about $.25 each. Go through 10 of those a day and you are looking at around $80 month.
Cloth diapers are, of course, a lot more fuss and bother. But millions of families do it all the time.
BTW, according to several articles formula runs about $50/month, give or take.
Last edited by GotHereQuickAsICould; 08-23-2018 at 04:11 AM..
If they can't even afford cheap, plastic diapers they have no business having a baby then.
Having babies while poor has become a very profitable family business. They live lavish lifestyles already, the last thing America needs is subsidized diapers for children and diaper banks.
Amazing, how senior citizens who worked all their life don't have diapers covered under Medicare which should be included but these poor women with children get a big windfall each month with only a tiny amount of that big, fat TANF check going to diapers.
It's all a bluff and desperate plea for higher taxes and more welfare so they can buy gold-rims for their Cadillac SUV's and trying to emulate Kardashian lifestyles.
Maybe they should use TANF money for diapers as opposed to manicures, gasoline for Cadillac Escalade's and steaks and lobsters.
As a single male without kids, I think it is interesting how many articles these days on pampered millennials who complain about child care being expensive and how diapers are expensive also.
When I was in college, one of my professors in a political science class asserted that "a decision as personal as whether to have a child should never be dictated by one's financial status"
That sounds like a professor. I totally disagree.. When deciding to have a baby a lot has to be taken into consideration. But to add to this, why can't mommies use cloth diapers like we did if they can't afford toss away ones? Many of us really couldn't afford that first baby but we had it anyway and guess what, a few years later everything worked out: Now, those same kids are grown with kids of their own and doing just fine.
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