Parents will spend more than $16,000 per year to raise a child in the first two years, as recorded by the USDA 2013 Expenditures on Children by Families Report. The same study shows average of $245,340 ($304,480 adjusted for projected inflation) is spent raising a child born in 2013 to age 17, and clothing accounts for 6% of those costs. Title: Untitled, from the series The Reluctant Father. Phillip Toledano's daughter, Loulou, was born on July 19th, 2010. Like a lot of men, he was neither ready nor vastly enthused. Over a year and a half, he chronicled his journey from misery to joy in The Reluctant Father (Dewi Lewis, 2013).

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