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Why can people with kids go to school for free, but childfree people get the shaft?
I work full time and my husband has two jobs. We are childfree by choice. I work with someone who makes more than I do and her husband makes more than my husband. We both applied to attend to the same community college. She gets to go to school for free (tuition and books all free) but yet I get no help whatsoever. How is this fair?
It's just like all of the child tax credits. Those of us who don't have kids (that need to go to school) we have to pay all kinds of taxes, for the government just to take that money and give to those who (either by choice or by accident) happen to have kids.
At what point did those with kids get everything and those of us who don't contribute to overpopulation and pollution get the shaft?
Your thoughts?
I'm not confused. People with dependents get more financial aid. I have living breathing proof that at least 4 people I work with get classes and books for free with pell grants and the like when I only got offered a loan.
And, I completely understand that kids are expensive. But having kids is a choice. A voluntary choice that people make. A choice they get rewarded for. If you didn't want a higher grocery bill, then you shouldn't have had kids.
I could choose to have a cocaine addiction that costs $5000 - $10,000 a year, but that choice doesn't get me any free education.
And, the whining you might be hearing are all the "poor me" parents who have so many mouths to feed. Well, they chose to have kids. They chose to have sex that produced those kids. If I choose not to wear my seatbelt, I'm certainly not going to complain that I smashed my head on the windshield and ask for sympathy because I have to live with the choices I make. I did it to myself.
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- MarvinLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
You are confused. I am child-free. I had to pay for much of my own schooling. I have a child-free friend who was awarded free money to go to school. It might be harder for us, but some of us still get a free ride from time to time.
Some of my education was paid by the Veterans Administration.
You are correct that people with children get more privileges. They get them because parents make up 90 percent of the adult population. They have more voting power.
- AlexLv 79 years ago
Because raising a child costs $5-10,000 per year. This is why rational people don't have kids just for the tax savings, because the savings are a lot less than the kid costs.
As for overpopulation, if every person doesn't have at least one child (two per family, assuming everyone gets married), the population will decrease over time (excluding the effect of immigration).
- AcheliosLv 79 years ago
have you read the estimates on how much it costs to raise a kid?
tax-breaks and even free college are not enough to off-set this cost
even in 1960, the cost to raise a child to the age of 18 was over $150,000
http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/06...
it may seem unfair.... but how much have you paid in diapers, formula, child care, clothes, shoes, school supplies, etc....
I don't know where she is getting funding to go to school free --- Federal Pell Grants only allow the maximum amount for families living at poverty level ($23,000 for a family of 4).. and the maximum amount is only $5,500 per year
It could be that you live in a state where they have very generous aid for families with children... but that would be something at the state level, not the federal level (california is one example with BOG tuition & fee waivers that can be used at higher income levels than pell grant)
I understand your point of view about not contributing to overpopulation
maybe you can see my point as well
when a person has a child, they are raising future tapayers, future contributors to social security, future military troups, etc...
- Carnac YomamaLv 69 years ago
You're confused.
People with children do not get more financial aid and/or free tuition and books.
At the same time, when you feel the need to whine, remember your last trip to the grocery store and double it......... that's what you food bill would be, or more, if you had kids.
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- 9 years ago
I have kids and I definitely have to pay my student loans back when I'm finished with school. Are you sure she goes for FREE? Or is she just getting by on loans for now? If she is, in fact going for free, can you please tell me how? Lol I would love to know!
