Let’s make no bones about it: most of us here are figuratively beaten-down-by-life adults but, for the most part, can take the suffering and drudgery that Oklahoma continues to heavily bear down on us in good—even great—spirits. But, according to a couple of just-released “scientific” findings, that same strife ain’t so hot for your brood.
According to a recent study by that great clickbait think-tank known as WalletHub (and posted on KFOR.com), in their 2018 list of the Best and Worst Places to Have a Baby, Oklahoma ranked as the fifth worst place to spawn and respawn. Look out though…we’re coming for you, Louisiana!
A new study has ranked Oklahoma as the 5th worst state to have a baby.
Earlier this week, WalletHub released its ‘2018’s Best & Worst States to Have a Baby.’
WalletHub says they compared the 50 states, and the District of Columbia, across 26 key measures of cost, health care accessibility and baby-friendliness. The data set ranges from hospital conventional-delivery charges to annual average infant-care costs to pediatricians per capita.
The other states in the list include the aforementioned Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, clearly to no one’s surprise I’m sure.
Being a Gold Star member of the health-care community, I can say, for the most part, my adult services was typically exceptional. But, then again, I wasn’t having a baby; an ex-girlfriend of mine worked in a local baby ward and she didn’t seem to like it, or the babies, that much. So I guess they’re right.