The economics of having children, XKCD style:
Or, if you want to see the cartoon rephrased in the form of a chart, you can pick through this USDA
report (pdf), which estimates that a middle-income family with a child born in 2009 will spend $220,000 ushering that kid into adulthood. And that’s not even counting any college costs that might hit once he or she reaches adulthood.
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