Though the term “fit” can be derogatory, and definitely outdated, I’ve definitely said variations on: “I’m about to have a goddamn fit…” when I get a warning aura just before a seizure starts, because ya gotta see humor in life’s little horrors.
I think it’s trying to use the word “fit” as an “epileptic fit.” As in, “he doesn’t fit” in his clothes" = he doesn’t have epileptic fits when wearing these clothes. I could be off the mark completely but that’s the only explanation I can think of
I only know the phrase “throwing a fit”, so I guess that “[he] doesn’t fit” could be interpreted as “[he] doesn’t have seizures”. Bear in mind that I’m not a native English speaker. Tagging @iHUNTcriminals in case they’re interested as well.
One definition of the verb “fit” is “to experience or be affected with a seizure and especially an epileptic seizure” so the joke is the dad is interpreting the mom’s statement as the kid no longer having seizures. - Peter Griffin
I have kids; neither me nor the other parents I know show off our pictures of them. If we do, it’s usually because we’ve been asked, or it’s people posting stuff to social, which I don’t think is quite the same. If I had to guess, it’s an older generation thing. That said, I DO take pictures of my kids, but that’s almost always exclusively for sharing within the family.
At least in western countries it is pretty likely your children will move far away from you anyways. Sure, it’s still nice to have someone, but it was far more valuable when you usually died in same town you were born in.
Apparently the average cost is $233,610. If you save all of that and assume that the child is 18 when the parent is 45, then there's another 20 years til 65, which is enough to more than double. So $500,000+ extra at retirement per child, or about $20k spending per year (if you can delay in-home care for 10 years and use higher estimates, its as much as 45K/year extra). Apparently average cost of in-home care is ~$60k/year. So not having 2 children and saving all of the difference could make-up for that.
Plus have to consider that a child more likely than not isn’t interested in being your in home caretaker for many years straight, not to mention potentially not being qualified for it (so you would need some sort of actual caretaker anyway).
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