title: A quarter of a million dollars to raise a child born in 2000: and if the child is disabled....
abstract: Raising children in the year 2000 and beyond will be expensive. A review of actual costs by expense categories and a variety of family demographic characteristics provides practitioners with an appreciation of the competitive financial realities faced by many families. An added review of the costs of raising children with disabilities adds further dimension to the financial pressures placed on many families.
authors: Dental Health Services, Department of General Dentistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8706, USA.
authors: H B
authors: HB
authors: Waldman
authors: S P
authors: SP
authors: Perlman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care / Q000191:economics*; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000191:economics; D003730:Dental Care for Persons with Disabilities / Q000191:economics*; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D005006:Ethnicity; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D011203:Poverty; D020954:Single-Parent Family / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States