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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are kids a status symbol? [/quote]

There's a bunch of articles about this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040403217.html

"What shocks people, when we tell them, isn't the thought of hauling three kids onto a place for a vacation, or even the idea of coming home every night to a houseful of runny noses and homework assignments. What gets them is the sheer financial audacity. Raising kids today costs a fortune. Last month, the Department of Agriculture estimated that each American child costs an average of $204,060 to house, clothe, educate and entertain until the age of 18."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/fashion/The-Growing-Three-Child-Household-in-Manhattan.html?ref=fashion&_r=5

"The richer people in New York are now having more kids,” said Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociology professor at Queens College who has analyzed the data. Across all income groups of white non-Hispanics across the five boroughs, those earning from $200,000 to $399,000 have had the largest increase in those with three children: 21 percent in 2011, up from 15 percent in 2000, an increase of nearly half. Those white non-Hispanics earning $500,000 or more were a close second, with three-child families up 6 percentage points in 2011, an increase of two-thirds from 2000."[/quote]

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