Time for me to chime in on this...
I'm scared to put my child in daycare... I wont.... My wife stays home... Its VERY hard on us... But daycare would cost us MORE than she made. So she is now a stay at home mom and I work...
You just have to make sacrifices... Try to eliminate debt wherever possible... Like me.. I sold the Si, paid off the blazer, and now my main goal is eliminating the last of our debt. 1 more CC to go... I'd love to redo alot of things in the house, but paying off the debt is more important.. And its hard to do much of anything right now with xmas and all...
And hondarin... You are a fucking moron...
#1. You will never save the money to have a child. I thought that too... Then I grew up.
#2. Your a moron
#3. With an attitude like that, you will be an awful father.
As far as welfare or anything like that goes... I'm a single income home... Its tough... I tried to get on WIC.. A tax program that I already pay for out of my taxes, to get milk, eggs, cheese, & formula (Anybody with a baby knows Formula is the killer)... Apparently I made about $100 too much last year to qualify...
Just the thought of putting my son in a kiddie corral sends shivers down my spine... A place where they just lay him in a crib all day, feed him whenever they feel like it, and maybe change him if your lucky?? Its scary...