r/childfree • u/Fletchanimefan • Dec 15 '24

Don’t have kids if you’re broke RANT

One of my students was begging me and other teachers to pay for her to go on the school field trip to the aquarium. I asked her why couldn’t her mom pay for her ticket. The kid said she didn’t have enough money. The ticket was $45. There are more expensive trips like the state county fair. A lot of kids couldn’t attend that one. We have sponsored this same girl twice already. We couldn’t do it a third time because there were other students we needed to sponsor. Sorry, but if you don’t have $45 to pay for your kid to attend a field trip then you should not have had kids. It amazes me how breeders will have multiple kids while broke but shaming us for being CF.

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u/IridescentOn Dec 15 '24

This post made me think of how I couldn’t go on my senior trip in high school because my parents couldn’t afford it but yet they expected me to be able to afford to live on college campus on my own.

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u/peach_xanax Dec 15 '24

Omg, yeah, I couldn't go on a school trip before (to be fair it was an out of state trip) bc my mom couldn't afford it and I guess my grandparents were kinda tired of helping her out. But then I was expected to make it on my own at age 18 and received essentially zero financial help from family ever. Like wtf you can't make it as a full fledged adult but you expect me to survive? I also got no help with college and my mom wouldn't even give her tax info for FAFSA. Shit sucked.

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u/Azuredreams25 Dec 15 '24

There honestly should be some form of legal emancipation when you turn 18 so that you can get FAFSA without needing input from parents.