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While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.

Families --- Child rearing --- Households --- Family allowances --- Allowances, Family --- Child benefit --- Child endowment --- Family endowment --- Family wages --- Cost and standard of living --- Economic security --- Mothers' pensions --- Wages --- Income maintenance programs --- Population --- Home economics --- Child raising --- Children --- Raising of children --- Rearing of children --- Training of children --- Child care --- Economic aspects --- Development and guidance --- Management --- Training --- Families - Economic aspects - United States --- Child rearing - Economic aspects - United States --- Households - Economic aspects - United States --- Family allowances - United States