{"id":3701,"date":"2018-08-24T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:07","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/08\/24\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"How much does it cost to raise a child in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cpag.org.uk\/content\/cost-child-2018\">latest report from the Child Poverty |Action group<\/a> gives the figures for raising a child to age 18, based on what the public thinks is a minimum standard of living.\u00a0 The overall cost (including rent and childcare) is \u00a3150,753 for a couple and \u00a3183,335 for a lone parent.\u00a0 Many parents are seen to struggle to attain this even when working.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyandchildcaretrust.org\/childcare-survey-and-holiday-childcare-survey\">Family and Child care Trust estimated summer holiday<\/a> childcare could cost up to \u00a3170 per week in some UK regions.\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/10\/the-economics-of-having-children\">World Economic forum working paper from 2016<\/a> also showed that having children had a negative impact on the economics of parents.\u00a0 You can also compare with <a href=\"https:\/\/aifs.gov.au\/media-releases\/new-estimates-costs-raising-children-australia\">Australia \u00a0by looking at this 2018 study<\/a> from the Australian Institute of Family Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report from the Child Poverty |Action group gives the figures for raising a child to age 18, based on what the public thinks is a minimum standard of living.\u00a0 The overall cost (including rent and childcare) is \u00a3150,753 for a couple and \u00a3183,335 for a lone parent.\u00a0 Many parents are seen to struggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[20,501,93],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","tag-australia","tag-chlldren","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}