Posted on 08/18/2014 9:02:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A message for new parents: get ready for sticker shock.
A child born in 2013 will cost a middle-income American family an average of $245,340 until he or she reaches the age of 18, with families living in the Northeast taking on a greater burden, according to a report out Monday. And that doesn’t include college—or expenses if a child lives at home after age 17.
Those costs that are included—food, housing, childcare and education—rose 1.8 percent over the previous year, the Agriculture Department’s new “Expenditures on Children and Families” report said. …
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That’s cheap. Americans should start having and raising their own kids again. These “unaccompanied minors” we’re importing in from Central America to be our next generation are turning out to be very “high maintenance”. They’re going to cost us a hell of a lot more than a quarter of a million each.
If you have to ask how much a kid will cost, you’re probably not ready to have one.
Look expensive, they’re raising some rich kid? I don’t think my parent spent more than $50k
The welfare mothers never ask, and they are certainly never ready to have them despite having them.
13,630 per year to raise a kid? That’s one fat kid.
They don’t have children...they have dependent beneficiaries.
They don’t have children...they have dependent beneficiaries.
Great how the libs invent ever-dehumanizing terms, right?
Yeah, sad.
Triple that for the college years.
Why would you “raise a child up slightly” ?
You can have kids, or you can have money. Guess which one is actually more rewarding?
Unless you’re on the dole! Then preschool, daycare, food, housing, phone utilities, college, are all FREE or drastically reduced. For you anyway. Too bad for the workers who pay for their kids and yours too.
How silly.
Good example of externalization of costs. The poor do that with breeding.
I asked a poor person this in Jamaica and in a third world-dominated U.S. City. Why so many kids? “Well one might make it and take care of you. It happens, mon.”
Taxpayers pay the pre-natal and healthcare, food, Section 8, free phone, free daycare, free breakfast and lunch, free this free that. Externalize cost. Prison. YOU pay.
But...
if they hit the lotto and baby grow up to send money home to them? Home run.
Soon it will be used as a pro-abortion ad. “If you have 4 abortions, you will save a million bucks - get rich via abortions. Start turning a roll in the sack (or on the hood of a car in the Kwicky-Mart parking lot) into rolling in the dough.”
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