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Children are Priceless or Are They?
Title: Children are Priceless or Are They?
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 962 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Children are Priceless or Are They?
Children are Priceless or Are They?
Children are priceless, but raising them is probably
the most expensive thing you’ll ever do.
Every newborn child is a bundle of joy. But you better
have a bundle of cash on hand if you want to raise one.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture - which
conducts annual Consumer Expenditure Surveys on the cost of
raising children -- estimates that families making ,900 a
year or more will …showed first 75 words of 962 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 962 total…items through age 17 is
,120 to ,430. This last category takes in 10 to 13
percent of the total cost and includes things such as
personal-care items, entertainment and reading materials.
To sum things up, we as a society don’t look at
children as expenses, but as a joy to our lives.
Works Cited
1. USDA annual report on cost of raising a
child.-Web site
2. Expenditures on Children by Families. - Web site
3. Newsweek, May 2001 - “The Cost of Children”
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