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Planning for Your Child's Immediate Needs


Regardless of whether your adoption fees are minimal or large, once you bring your child home, you must begin to pay for the normal expenses of raising a child. These costs can be something of a shock if you've never raised children before. Typical child-raising expenses generally include:

 

  • food
  • clothing
  • furniture
  • medical expenses
  • health coverage, braces, and/or glasses
  • child care
  • transportation
  • "child proofing" your home
  • books, games, and toys
  • computer and computer games
  • activities, clubs, sports, or camps
  • bicycles or other sporting equipment
  • music lessons
  • movies and other entertainment
  • vacations
  • communion or bar and bat mitzvah parties
  • allowances
  • car/car insurance
  • college or vocational school


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