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Baby bust: 5 charts show how expensive it is to have kids in the US today

  • Written by Heidi Steinour, Visting Instructor in Sociology, University of South Florida
Out-of-pocket expenses for delivery run in the tens of thousands for many Americans.mathom/shutterstock.com

Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children.

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