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High Cost Of Raising Children

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The issues raised by this article is how high the cost is to raise children. It costs over 167,000 dollars to raise a child just until the age of 18. This is forcing people to solely base their decision on having children on financial consideration. Nowadays most people who want to have children have to sit down and think it they can afford it. Where others just struggle to care for their children and to meet their needs. People are put into great debt trying to provide for their kids and many people around the world want to give their children the best life possible but struggle too. This article also touches on the fact that there is little information available to Canadians about the costs associated with raising children so people aren 't really edcationed with the facts. …show more content…

But in reality to raise a child just until there are only one years old, with all the diapers they go though it will cost the parent over 10,000 dollars which works out to about 830 dollars a month. The cost of raising a child or two will just keep getting higher as products in society are costing more and children have lots of needs that parents will need to provide for. Studies have shown that people are having less children due to the cost of raising them. The major issues is that people want kids and are having them, but are struggling to pay as parents are looking to spend around 700 dollars per month per child to raise them. We need to have more information available to people so they can educate their self and be prepared to become a

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