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Children are expensive! In the US today, estimates for yearly child-rearing expenses are $12,600-$ 14,700 for a child in a two-parent, married-couple, middle-income family (Lino, 2013). Housing, child-care/education, food, clothes, transportation, and healthcare are major expenditures.
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Goldberg, W.A. (2014). Time to Work: Work Involvement and the Timing of Fatherhood. In: Father Time: The Social Clock and the Timing of Fatherhood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137372727_6
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