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Costs More To Help Frail Parent than Raising a Child to 17

Forbes recently had an interesting article showing that is costs more to care for aging parents than to raise kids.    While the article focuses on the United States, there is likely a similar result in Canada.   It makes the point that governments do more to help families raise kids than to care for an aging parent.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2017/01/18/families-spend-more-to-care-for-their-aging-parents-than-to-raise-their-kids/#10caf2ac6b92

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