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Straight dudes: imagine you're married, and another dude offers to pay your wife (and by extension you) some money for her to bear his child (artificial insemination), and for both you and your wife to raise the child. You'd be okay with this for ___

<$1m
4.8%
$1m-3m
11.5%
$3m+
26.4%
No amount would be ok
57.3%

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5:28 PM · Mar 14, 2022

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What does my wife think? Or are we saying she's happy to do it for free?

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I’d have to be set forever and never have to think about money ever again no matter what crazy idea I have within reason. Maybe 20 million. I would probs always feel slightly weird about the child.

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Wait, yeah what does “raise” mean? How much time does the child take up?

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Ok new answer: he has to cover all the costs of all of my kids, including his, and including my time costs, and has to pay my wife enough that she’s down. He also has to be ok w me loving his kid less.

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Looking for some people for more like 10k think of the tax right offs

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Raising a child is a tremendous commitment, so I don't think any amount would be okay.

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I feel that the top money option here wins. I mean that if you set the bar at $10m+ you'll get roughly the same results.

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We'd raise the child too? Why would someone want that?

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This is dependent on both how many millions of dollars you have already, and whether the man is infertile.

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It depends on what my wife would want. If she doesn't want to, no money would be enough. It would also depend on if it was in vitro or level of negotiated monogamy between me and wife. If going forward it would need to be reasonable medical expenses.