Does money matter when raising children,
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Does money matter when raising children,
| Tue, 02-15-2011 - 10:02am |
Do you feel a parents income has a direct EFFECT on the children they raise,
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I feel that financial stability/instability has a direct effect on children, yes, but I do not think that specific dollar amounts directly determine financial stability unless that dollar amount slips below living wage earnings.
there is a off season at disney here,
After that point, I think there is a very large gray area in which money *might* matter .. maybe a better school, or a better home, etc. But that many times that is subjective.
And then there is a point at which more money is just simply that .. more money.
I think that Greatful should mess with her by listing all the places that lady's children haven't been (Hawaii, the Grand Canyon, Paris, Broadway, whatever) and act horrified at how deprived the lady's children are and how fundamentally twisted from their true potential selves they must be for never having those experiences. :smileywink:
ROFL! My kid is DOOMED, doomed I tell ya. I made a decision early on that my kid would NOT go to Disney. Money had nothing to do with it.
However, I do think that the SES you grow up with shapes you in all kinds of ways. OTOH, you can have money and still not be the sort of person who goes to Disney, and you can be scraping by and still make it a priority to take the kids to Disney.
"In other words, a sufficiently deprived environment will tend to have a harmful effect upon the children. But, above a certain fairly low threshhold, you hit the law of diminishing returns, and it doesn't really make a difference."
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