Matt Walsh: We couldn’t afford to have kids

I was 27 and broke when we had kids. They were twins, so we became a family of four right out of the gate. We didn’t really know anybody where we lived, and we were about 600 miles from the nearest family member. Our parents flew out to help us for the first couple of weeks, but we were mostly on our own after that.

I wasn’t making much money at my job, we had nothing in savings, and we were pretty far in the red because of medical bills and my wife’s student loan debt. It didn’t help matters that we weren’t good at managing the money we did have, although it felt kind of irrelevant because we never had it in our possession for long enough to waste it. We weren’t impoverished, things could have been worse, but they also could have been much better.

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