The Cost of a Baby

Providing the basics for a baby costs parents thousands of dollars. Here are the average child-rearing expenditures for a mother-and-father household in a child's first year, by income.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Agriculture | The Washington Post - March 8, 2008

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