COST OF A KID: $300,000

The cost of raising a child through high school has risen to more than $300,000, according to a Brookings Institution estimate. It determined that a married, middle-income couple with two children would spend $310,605 — or an average of $18,271 a year — to raise their younger child born in 2015 through age 17. The calculation added in adjustments for inflation trends.
* And half of that is just sneakers.
* The other half is school fees, in my experience.
* How much is it if you don’t buy them Legos?
* This number can’t be right. When I tried to sell my kid on the internet, nobody offered more than ten grand.
* Then there’s that big payment when they turn 18 when you have to hire a lawyer to get them evicted.