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what it averages — on a national basis.
In the local area, as well as elsewhere, the cost is vastly greater todayJhan it was when father and mother were children.
In those days, according to a study entitled “The Money Value of a Man,” a typical family spent $7,425 to raise a child to age 18. That covered the cost of childbirth, housing, food,
94.6%