Current Events > America is ranked THE WORST to Raise a FAMILY in the WORLD!! Do you agree??

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The United States is ranked one of the WORST in the world to raise a FAMILY while the UK and Canada didn't fare much better either according to a new research!!

America ranked 34/35 in comparison to the world's biggest economies scoring an F for safety, cost of living and work life balance and a D- for health and a C+ for happiness and education

Overall it was given an F with only Mexico coming out last

The Raising a Family Index was compiled from 30 studies in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development which are advanced democracies with wealthy economies

Many european countries came out on top as America and South America ranked at the bottom

It was compiled by travel and family experts Asher and Lyric who said America's bottom position for the cost of bringing up a family state "Parents with average household income have to spend 31.79% of their income on childcare costs alone. Compare that to Scandanavian countries where households only have to spend 4% to 10% of income ot raise a well rounded child"

The top countries on this list spend over 3% of GDP on family benefis such as affordable childcare while the US spends a paltry 0.64%

They also say the US is the only country that doesn't require employers to offer a even a single day of paid maternity leave or paid vacation while every other country gives generous paid leave

A typical american employee gets 10 days of paid vacation a year while every other country has employees get 30 days a year of paid leave

The US is ranked 12 worst overall in education and 6th worst of math and only Mexico beats them for worst in overall

Lyric, an american mother of 2 said "I think if we, as Americans are truly honest with ourselves we might understand why the US ranks solidly as the second worst country to raise a family. My aspiration is that something will substantially change in my children's lifetime. There are things i love about this country, i hope we can all rise to the occasion"

Do you think America sucks for raising a family?

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Yeah, America definitely sucks for raising a family.

Sounds about right. One of the reasons I dont see myself ever having kids is because this country has kind of turned into a shithole.

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Yeah fucking right.

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Agreed. The country has fallen. Who would want to raise a child in this madness?

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I am shocked

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trumps america

You'd be a fool to say it wasn't.

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The lack of safety nets in a rapidly evolving society should make most people uneasy about having a family.


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Maybe, but these studies often have a lot of moronic questions/factors that sway shit in stupid ways.

This topic is a lie. Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras even half of Mexico and etc...are much worse

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As someone who has raised a family in every country, I'd say it's all pretty much the same. They all seem to be whiney about how Im always with my other families.

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I bet you America's education is C+ mostly due to its overly expensive private schools and high end colleges. We've seen from recent events how much of the country seem very poorly educated. It's also the only nation I've been to that inordinately hates math, and I have a feeling it's due to how poorly they teach it in elementary school. Education in the US is a joke

But yeah I think being upper middle class in US is probably better than most nations though

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Seems fair.

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Why do people migrate to the US, shit sucks

To nobodies surprise

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I dont have another child just thinking of the cost of health insurance and day care. Some people pay 1k per week for day care and Ive heard of people getting taken out hundreds of each paycheck for an additional child. THAT IS FUCKED UP.

You fix healthcare, affordable day care and education and US will be back on track.

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America has completely lost the family unit in the name of individualism. Unsurprising.

Id love to see who worked on this

Spooking posted...

The gangbangers in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, ect.. are tanking our safety index.

It's the terrible gun laws. I doubt "gamgbangers" have any say in them

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America is kind of like great if you can afford it shit if you can't

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1. your title says it was worst. but the actual truth is Mexico was ranked worst

2. what makes mexico worse than North fucking Korea? any study that doesn't say North Korea is the worst is a shitty study

Good thing that I won't be having children even if I wanted to.

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Out of the countries Ive visited, Turkey and Mexico should definitely rank below US. Its weird that they included Mexico at all, but whatever.

Also weird is that they refer to the Republic of Korea as both South Korea and as Korea and that it has Mexicos flag in the happiness index sheet. Poor editing doesnt bode well for this rankings attention to detail and therefore its accuracy.

Kami_no_Kami posted...

Out of the countries Ive visited, Turkey and Mexico should definitely rank below US. Its weird that they included Mexico at all, but whatever.

Also weird is that they refer to the Republic of Korea as both South Korea and as Korea and that it has Mexicos flag in the happiness index sheet. Poor editing doesnt bode well for this rankings attention to detail and therefore its accuracy.

There's only one Korea in the OECD, but yeah they made one mistake with the graphics. Also it's a country average. Turkey just might have more well off cities than Mexico

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Lmao at how badly Trump has fucked America

If youre rich, its great.

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People drag their children through thousands of miles of desert to live in the shittiest country on Earth

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it's a tie
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It depends on the state and the city. SoCal for example is definitely not a good place to raise a family and I know from experience.

LightBurn posted...

Lmao at how badly Trump has fucked America

Yeah, it does suck to raise a family here for millinials. The government has not only made it unaffordable to own a house and earn a college degree, they've also devalued that degree to the point that it will probably never pay for itself.

Much less have children on top of that

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came in thinking theres no way were even below the top 50 in the world.

turns out were 34/35 of the ranked countries.

if the question is do I agree with 34/35, then that would be a yes.

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EaRtH iS tHe WorsT PlAnEt To rAiSe A fAmIlY

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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

EaRtH iS tHe WorsT PlAnEt To rAiSe A fAmIlY

This about sums up the American education system.

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This survey doesn't sound like utter horseshit at all.

I can name many places far worse than USA to raise your family. Take Somalia for example. Would you raise your children to be pirates?

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Just look at how we all turned out.

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https://transferwise.com/gb/blog/cost-of-having-a-baby-in-united-states
Summary
(No insurance) Total average hospital bill for a regular birth: $30,000
(No insurance) Total average hospital bill with a c-section: $50,000
(With insurance) Total average hospital bill for a regular birth: $3,400
(With insurance) Total average hospital bill with a c-section: $3,400

Cost in the Uk: 0
All pregnancy care under the NHS is free for those who choose to avail it. Women using the NHS will give birth in an NHS hospital. Even certain services that arent generally free in the UK are free during and immediately after pregnancy, such as dental care.

https://transferwise.com/gb/blog/cost-of-having-a-baby-in-the-uk

This is NOT taking account such things as IVF.


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threetimes posted...

https://transferwise.com/gb/blog/cost-of-having-a-baby-in-united-states
Summary
(No insurance) Total average hospital bill for a regular birth: $30,000
(No insurance) Total average hospital bill with a c-section: $50,000
(With insurance) Total average hospital bill for a regular birth: $3,400
(With insurance) Total average hospital bill with a c-section: $3,400

Cost in the Uk: 0
All pregnancy care under the NHS is free for those who choose to avail it. Women using the NHS will give birth in an NHS hospital. Even certain services that arent generally free in the UK are free during and immediately after pregnancy, such as dental care.

https://transferwise.com/gb/blog/cost-of-having-a-baby-in-the-uk

This is NOT taking account such things as IVF.

This is what gets me. Republicans bitch about taxes in other countries for universal health care, but as a Canadian I don't have a 4 digit copay on top of what's already shelled out for insurance.

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No thats dumb.

Id be perfectly fine with raising my kid in washington state and other places in america too but at least i know washington well.

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

This is what gets me. Republicans bitch about taxes in other countries for universal health care, but as a Canadian I don't have a 4 digit copay on top of what's already shelled out for insurance.

Dude my broken bones and diverticulitis would have meant a life time of debt that id never fully pay off if i was in the US.

That whole anti taxes thing makes zero sense unless you think anyone who gets hurt or sick deserved it.

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Gee...between our shitty education system, our shitty healthcare systems, our huge wealth gap I can hardly imagine why people might think like this.

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Lol china and russia

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As long as we are talking about western countries. I can't imagine America being worse to have a kid in than Somalia >_>

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I can agree with that assessment

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Who TF would choose to raise a family here if given the option to go to any country in the world

Also the only thing America has going for it is the easy access to goods. But Amazon will soon make that point moot once they improve their global shipping, within 5 or so years there will be legitimately no reason to live here if you have money to go anywhere else.

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