Starting on page 125 Twenge introduces the subject of dual-income. She thinks that this formula will work up until the woman or man wants to take time off to care for a child. Twenge States that several couples that she knows live in apartments or commute two hours away from their home to work because that is all they can afford on one income. Twenge then goes on to say that her childless friends wonder how they will be able to stay in their homes or buy one after they have children, given that they both have to work to afford mortgage payments and the prohibitive cost of full-time daycare for an infant (which is usually about $1,000 a month or more for each kid). Twenge reflects on a time where she told her undergraduate class the price of
