Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children.
Based on trends in costs, it’s evident why many families are choosing to have fewer children — or in some cases, no children at all.
The cost of having children in the U.S. has grown exponentially since the 1960s, when the government first started collecting data on childhood expenditures. Between 2000 and 2010, the cost shot up by 40%.
As of 2015, American parents spend, on average, $233,610 on child costs from birth until the age of 17, not including college.This number covers everything from housing and food to child care and transportation costs. As a mother myself, as well as a sociologist who studies families, I have experienced firsthand the unexpected costs associated with having a child.
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6 comments:
I'm sure that they figure the fatherless and motherless kids that we support , an extremely costly program.
Don't breed them if you can't feed them.
Our society has been socially engineered for decades now using the television as the mind control device.
It is doomed. America is in decline and it cannot be reversed. The jobs are gone and the children are mind controlled.
The middle class 1.2 kids per family is fast being overtaken by the state subsidized greater volume of poor kids. We are on a downward trend.
The more kids on welfare the government gives you. Besides you don't have to have the most expensive shoes, phones, clothes. My partents raised 7 of us and we wanted for knowing. We accepted what our partents provided. When we were old enough we could wait to be get a job. And we thanked our parents for teaching us a work ethic. Parents don't do that today
and yet they keep having them...
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