My son, how much do you cost me? 320 thousand euros – Economy

Certain calculations should only be made when you want to get people to quit smoking. Do you know how much 5 euros per package per day make in ten years? Eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty, not counting the days when a package is not enough. Applied to the blood of our blood it is too unfair a mathematical provocation. Considering that we do fewer and fewer children, almost an own goal. So hold on tight. Weigh the sum coldly. Divide it by months, days and satisfactions. Do not panic. Even if it would be enough to buy a one-bedroom apartment just outside the center, keep a sense of proportion.

The average cost to raise a child from birth to 18 years, according to the chicken average, is 175.642 euro which, in high-income families (70 thousand euros a year or more), rises to 321,617.36 (the 36 after the decimal point are for that dinner in a pizzeria where they had an encore). The Observatory of Federconsumatori and if your head is spinning, try to pay in installments: 175,642 up to the age of majority are 9,700 and broken a year, 800 and something a month. Goes better? Always too much?

Someone will let themselves be taken by a petty drift: they have certainly calculated sports and entertainment but not the change for the Pokemon cards, the jumpers, the popcorn, the Playstation saga, the dozens of destroyed bicycles, the scooters, the gifts at the parties’ parties. friends, pocket money subject to heavy emotional inflation.

An account between 7 thousand and 15 thousand in the first year of life, when baby carriers, strollers and high chairs are added without restraint. And then away to grow. Net of unforeseen events and illnesses, keeping a child means spending on food, clothing, free time, education. The debut at the high school costs on average 700 euro between books and stationery and someone wonders why the Rocci vocabulary kept well by the mother cannot be suitable for the child since ancient Greek is a dead language. Here comes theuniversity, the bloodletting seems finished. And immediately take the master. And who has three, four, five, how does he do it? And who has a girl?

From an English study of the site Love Money it seems that the girls cost up to 34 thousand euros more, especially in the turmoil of adolescence: a male is satisfied with a haircut every now and then, she already has her trusted hairdresser, she goes crazy for cosmetics, buys up bags and accessories. It’s like waking up suddenly. While he, the innocent puppy, informs you that he has decided to spend the New Year in Cervo: they have agreed on 350 euros each, Edoardo puts up the house. Now it’s time to call into question the pandemic. It is true that with the lockdown the costs for judo and all the small carnivals that children invent themselves have collapsed, but this has not served to amortize the increase in costs for housing and utilities (+ 12% compared to 2018), nutrition (+ 8%), education and care (+ 6%). The icing on the cake: in the last two years the income of Italian families has decreased with disastrous results, especially for single parents and low income brackets, without bringing relief concessions such as the childbirth allowance, the mother tomorrow bonus, the single child allowance and the nursery bonus.

Federconsumatori’s ruling: “These data highlight how, today more than ever, having a child is becoming a luxury reserved for the few, which Italians are always able to afford. It is not surprising that in 2021 the minimum number of births“A child should be raised on milk and approval, recommended the English playwright Charles Lamb. It went down in history as a melancholy temperament, with flashes of subtle humor.