{"id":4389,"date":"2011-10-17T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:01:33","slug":"having-kids-is-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/having-kids-is-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Having kids is expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of having children is not only getting more expensive, but the financial responsibilities of being a parent are becoming even longer term. Not only are there the additional costs of putting a child through University to consider, but if your child stands any chance of getting onto the property ladder, there\u2019s a decent chance you\u2019ll need to help to foot the bill.<\/p>\n<p>According to research by LV=, the cost of raising a child until their 21st birthday is now almost \u00a3211,000, compared to \u00a3140,398 back in 2003 when the firm first looked into the subject.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4390\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/having-kids-is-expensive\/kids-money\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kids-money.png\" data-orig-size=\"621,775\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kids-money\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kids-money.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4390\" title=\"kids-money\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kids-money.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kids-money.png 621w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kids-money-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of having children is not only getting more expensive, but the financial responsibilities of being a parent are becoming even longer term. Not only are there the additional costs of putting a child through University to consider, but if your child stands any chance of getting onto the property ladder, there\u2019s a decent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/having-kids-is-expensive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Having kids is expensive&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-18N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}