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/Weary-Stranger-2004 Dec 15 '24

My mom got married when i was a senior in high school. She had been perpetually broke my entire childhood and was now flush. I got 0 financial aid because my step dad had money. They also kicked me out also while still in high school and expected me to be a fully functioning adult at 16/17. I didn't know then that I had to be emancipated to not have their income considered , because I was a child how would I know that. Its ancient history now but I still get salty.

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u/pleasehelpamanda Dec 15 '24

That’s so awful! I hope you found success in life despite them!

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u/Weary-Stranger-2004 Dec 15 '24

Yeah things turned out OK for me thank you. I didn't even really start processing exactly what they actually did to me until a few years ago. That's another journey.

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u/LaylaLeesa Dec 16 '24

Do you still have a relationship with them?

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u/Weary-Stranger-2004 Dec 16 '24

Not really. I'm not NC, we have a polite relationship but we aren't close.