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Hey welcome to the planet....it's really cheaper to raise a kid than i would have thought:

WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- Raising a child from birth to age 17 cost middle-income parents $222,360 last year amid rising childcare and education expenses, the U.S. government reported.

The Department of Agriculture's annual Expenditures on Children and Families report provides a 50-year view of the child-rearing expenditures. From 1960 through 2009, adjusting for inflation, the cost of raising a child climbed 22 percent.

The report, based on a married couple's cost of raising a child in a two-child, middle-income family, found annual expenses ranged from $11,650 to $13,530 a year, depending on the cld's age, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Childcare and education expenses climbed from 2 percent to 17 percent of child-rearing costs, the report found. Housing topped all other family costs in 1960 and 2009, while the proportion of a family's income spent on housing ros
 
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