Being a childless cat lady isn’t looking too bad.
On Tuesday’s episode of “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt reacted to a massive spike in child-raising costs.
The average price of raising a kid over the course of 18 years in the U.S. has reached $303,418, according to a new study from LendingTree — and it seems that Earhardt, who is a mother herself, could totally understand why.
“Gosh, everything is so expensive,” Earhardt said before listing all the often-overlooked reasons why having a kid can cut into your pocketbook. “And what happens when you have a child is [you’re no longer] buying things for yourself. Everything goes to that child. You think about them constantly. I mean, it depends. It depends on if you’re doing public school, private school. It depends on if you’re saving for college. It depends on if you, you know, all their clothes, all their school supplies, the backpacks. I mean, it all just adds up. All their sports, the sports are expensive. All the uniforms you have to buy for the sports.”
“Right, and that’s, by the way, the bare minimum, they say, with money,” her co-host Brian Kilmeade pointed out about the stunning figure.
