10-02-2003, 05:45 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Most of the world though has free public education to 12th grade though, and a lot of countries have free university as well. I think it's horrible that you have to pay to put a kid through high school! I was raised to think that education was a basic fundamentall right, not a privilege you have to pay for.
Things are more expensive now but wages have increased too. I'm sure when you were a kid the average income was also a lot lower! It does sound like things are more expensive in your part of the world though, I think school lunches are not more then $5 now(and those can be free to families who can't afford it), cough medicine is $3-5 also. Don't know about diapers, last time I was with someone buying diapers was when my sister was a baby and she's 14 now. I think they were around $10 then? But for a big box, more then a dozen, for sure. It's been a while!
I'd be more worried about paying for college, these days you have to start saving as soon as the kids are born. I don't want my kids to have to be $20k in debt from college, even after going to a state school, at only age 22 like I was.
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But that's what I want now 
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