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Thread: How hard is it really to raise a child as a working single mom?

post 10000038606 02-04-2026, 08:25 PM
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How hard is it really to raise a child as a working single mom?

From birth to 18 without a support network?

Seems like it would be borderline impossible from newborn to age 1 or so? Unless you work remote or have an independent source of income.
post 10000038607 02-04-2026, 08:26 PM
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LOL @ 1 child + working.

Bon Qui Qui has 5 kids by 5 different baby daddies and doesn't work.
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post 10000038613 02-04-2026, 08:33 PM
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post 10000038614 02-04-2026, 08:33 PM
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If you don't care about the child, quite easy. If you do care and want to give them the best upbringing you can, it's almost impossible, for obvious reasons.
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post 10000038618 02-04-2026, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
If you don't care about the child, quite easy. If you do care and want to give them the best upbringing you can, it's almost impossible, for obvious reasons.
What if you live in a country where the default employment position is 26 weeks of paid parental leave which parents are entitled to take at half pay?
post 10000038619 02-04-2026, 08:36 PM
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I'd say impossible and that kid is likely going to end up dead or in jail. ded fkn srs
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post 10000038623 02-04-2026, 08:38 PM
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work from home job. keep in mind they sleep a lot the first few years. also i would think it's kinda rare for a woman to have zero support network unless she has some pretty bad mental problems.
post 10000038637 02-04-2026, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
What if you live in a country where the default employment position is 26 weeks of paid parental leave which parents are entitled to take at half pay?
Sounds great, until you realize it's in Kangaroo dollars.
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post 10000038643 02-04-2026, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Sounds great, until you realize it's in Kangaroo dollars.
Imagine having to pay federal income tax, state income tax, sales tax AND tips
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post 10000038647 02-04-2026, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Sounds great, until you realize it's in Kangaroo dollars.
No economies are running on gold or bitcoin yet.
post 10000038648 02-04-2026, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted By LargePeter⏩
Imagine having to pay federal income tax, state income tax, sales tax AND tips
It’s fine as long as you get free public healthcare, subsidised pharmaceuticals and subsidised private childcare
post 10000038662 02-04-2026, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
It’s fine as long as you get free public healthcare, subsidised pharmaceuticals and subsidised private childcare
So you're suggesting that we pay less tax per dollar of income if done correctly, plus no tips, PLUS get the benefits you mentioned?

Oh no, kangaroo dollarcels on suicide watch!!
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post 10000038691 02-04-2026, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
It’s fine as long as you get free public healthcare, subsidised pharmaceuticals and subsidised private childcare
Originally Posted By LargePeter⏩
So you're suggesting that we pay less tax per dollar of income if done correctly, plus no tips, PLUS get the benefits you mentioned?

Oh no, kangaroo dollarcels on suicide watch!!
Meh, effective tax rate is lower in the US, tax to GDP is lower in the US, and the US dollar is worth twice as much as the Au dollar. Positions also pay more in the US. And lastly, though many don't know it, the US also has public healthcare for povertons, unlike in Au you have to sign up for it manually, but it's effectively the same thing.
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post 10000038695 02-04-2026, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
It’s fine as long as you get free public healthcare, subsidised pharmaceuticals and subsidised private childcare
Imagine being American and paying all those taxes for shit tier infrastructure and no decent social programs for working people who deserve them, just free handouts to illegals and low IQ welfare bums
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post 10000038719 02-04-2026, 09:48 PM
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I have a newborn. Although they sleep most of the time, they feed every 2 hours + diaper changes. Single mothers gotta be leaving junior with grandmama or an auntie while they go to work. Ain’t no other way
post 10000038728 02-04-2026, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted By MetroBrah⏩
I have a newborn. Although they sleep most of the time, they feed every 2 hours + diaper changes. Single mothers gotta be leaving junior with grandmama or an auntie while they go to work. Ain’t no other way
Congrats.
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