That's more literally true than you think.

My children nursed me back to health after doctor's wrote me off for dead. It's supposed to cost about $100k-$250k annually to treat my condition conventionally.

My oldest has the same condition. Between the two of us, that's up to a half million dollars per year.

We were diagnosed over 18 years ago. You can conservatively guess that my kids have been worth at least $1.5 million to me, and potentially more than $9 million.

(That's just the dollar value saved on treatment. You can put no price on the improvement in quality of life that I got out of it.)

Related: https://faithit.com/i-cant-afford-my-wife-steven-nelms/ a stay-at-home mom is worth $75K+/yr

Right. Once you figure out there are more columns in the life-ledger than cash, decisions change. To the bafflement of folks that haven't figured it out yet.

"If money is all that you want, money is all that you will have" - no idea who first said this, but so true.