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So back on our home front it has made it difficult for us to decide what to do next with our lives also. Neither of us are particularly fond of children and we don’t think we want to have any, but it does bring up the question of, could we afford to even if we wanted to? Could we really afford to spend the next 20 years looking after a child? They say it costs roughly $500000 per child up to the age of 18. How on earth can anybody afford that sort of money? What if you have two of them? I’m not sure if its more selfish to have children and be unable to give them absolutely everything they need or to not have children at all. For some reason people find it more selfish to not have children but I couldn’t bare not being able to look after a child properly and give it what it needs. For instance I desperately want another animal but we both know that we probably can’t afford it and don’t want to give that animal a worse life because of this. It isn’t fair to get something just because you want it and then not be able to look after it.