{"id":10928,"date":"2014-05-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2014-05-11T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T16:49:25","slug":"the-economics-of-being-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-being-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Being A Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/051114_1632_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this Mother&#8217;s day Kevin Voigt took a look at the tradeoffs that mothers make:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It takes about $241,000 to raise a child. And that doesn&#8217;t even include the cost of college.<\/li>\n<li>But that is just the tip of the iceberg. According to one estimate a mother produces $119,000 worth of unpaid output a year.<\/li>\n<li>If this were included in GDP calculations it could boost many country&#8217;s GDPs by up to 50%.<\/li>\n<li>The longer women wait to have children the more their lifetime wages increase \u2013 even if they return to work after.<\/li>\n<li>And for highly skilled women being a mother can mean a loss of $230,000 in lifetime earnings.<\/li>\n<li>Father&#8217;s, on the other hand, see no financial penalty from parenthood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the financial decisions that mothers have to make, details about the studies referenced, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/Saving-Money\/2014\/0511\/Mother-s-Day-Motherhood-costs-women-250-000-in-lost-wages\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/Saving-Money\/2014\/0511\/Mother-s-Day-Motherhood-costs-women-250-000-in-lost-wages\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this Mother&#8217;s day Kevin Voigt took a look at the tradeoffs that mothers make: It takes about $241,000 to raise a child. And that doesn&#8217;t even include the cost of college. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. According to one estimate a mother produces $119,000 worth of unpaid output a year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/051114_1632_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10932,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/10932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}