Average costs of raising a child in the U.S. in 2010 by category

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This statistic shows the average costs of raising a child from birth to age 18 for a middle-income, two-child, two-parent family in the U.S. in 2010. Child care and education is the second largest category on this list. Nearly 40,000 U.S. dollars have to be expended per child. The total costs sum up to about 226,920 U.S. dollars.