{"id":508275,"date":"2025-10-18T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508275\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:55:26","slug":"how-are-you-affording-the-costs-of-raising-a-child-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/508275\/","title":{"rendered":"How are you affording the costs of raising a child? Tell us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0 text_align_left\">The cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/05\/05\/business\/trump-babies-fertility-rate-parenthood-cost-living-affordability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/05\/05\/business\/trump-babies-fertility-rate-parenthood-cost-living-affordability\/\">raising a child in Massachusetts has exploded<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0 text_align_left\">From daycare to diapers to strollers, the price tag of parenthood has made it immensely difficult for families here to make ends meet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0 text_align_left\">The Globe wants to talk to parents in Massachusetts about how they are managing the financial responsibility of raising a child. How are you affording \u2014 or not \u2014 costs such as daycare, baby clothes, and diapers? Are you finding creative ways to stretch your dollar? Have you fallen behind on other financial goals? We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Fill out our survey below and a reporter may be in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagline | font_primary inline_block  margin_top_32\">Yogev Toby can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/10\/17\/business\/affording-child-care-survey\/mailto:yogev.toby@globe.com\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:inherit;letter-spacing:.5px\" rel=\"noopener\">yogev.toby@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of raising a child in Massachusetts has exploded in recent years. From daycare to diapers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[166346,166347,51,166350,47671,1700,474,166351,166349,44888,2499,2249,166348,369,16,15,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-508275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-austin-texas","9":"tag-baby-stroller","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-finance-and-industry","12":"tag-color-image","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-finance-and-economy","16":"tag-gulf-coast-states","17":"tag-horizontal","18":"tag-personal-finance","19":"tag-photography","20":"tag-target-brand-name","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115392684592617921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}