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Child rearing is one of those crazy things in life. While most people will spend as much money as it takes to get their child to a point of being self-sufficient, some parents simply don’t have the means other parents do. Perhaps it’s partly circumstance, and perhaps it’s partly an internal cap some people put on themselves, but money can be a big deal. How much does it really take, luxuries aside, to raise a child?
If you can answer that financial question, you could probably also take home the Nobel Prize for Economics. While you might not be able to objectively answer how much it takes to raise a child, everyone has their opinions. One of them is that it costs roughly as much as the parents can muster, meaning they will put everything they can toward their child’s eventual success. There are even websites devoted to estimating the costs of raising a child, though this is still only an educated guess.
