Money spent on child-related costs increases as a family\'s incomegoes up. For instance, those with an income between 57,000 and 99,000 spend about 221,000 and those with higher incomes are expected to spendroughly 367,000 through age 17. Costs of raising a child are highest inthe urban northeast and lowest in the urban south and rural areas。

用在孩子身上的开支随家庭收入增长而增加。举例来说，收入在5.7万美元至9.9万美元之间的家庭将孩子养到17岁大概要花22.1万美元，而收入更高的家庭大约花费36.7万美元左右。东北部城市养育孩子的花费最高，南部城市和农村地区则最低。

We\'ve written before about the decision to add to the family intough economic times. How much thought did you give to the cost of raising children in your decision to have a family or to have additional children? What are your biggest costs in raising your children?

此前我们讨论过经济困难时期家庭所需要做的决定。在决定要孩子或是多生孩子时，你有没有考虑过养育孩子的成本?你抚养孩子最大的开支是什么?

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