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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
If it's total household income, then I'd say that yes, being married and having a wife that works so you can pay a nanny still makes it look like you're richer on paper. Your overall household income is more.
Would the money from roommates be considered income? Or it could be that if you have several roommates in a house you have more earners in your household, or so I would think. It depends on what you consider a household to be or what you consider income, or at least what the person think's who's putting together that income table.
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The data is below. Family households are either married couples or single parents with kids. Nonfamily households are co-habituating couples or singles living with roommates. Living alone is exactly what it says.
As you can see single living either with roommates or by themselves so worse than single parents. (Likely because most of our social assistance is targeted at children or seniors)
A typical US family would need childcare for a maximum of 8 years (The fertility rate of 1.6 children per woman x 5 years before school starts)
