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Middle-income parents who welcomed a new child last year can expect to spend nearly $300,000 over the next 17 years, according to a new report. 对于在去年迎来一位家庭新成员的中等收入美国家庭而言，未来17年里，他们花在这个孩子身上的花费可能是近30万美元。此数字来自美国农业部（U.S. Department of Agriculture）最新发布的家庭子女教育花费报告。 The U.S. Department of Agriculture prepares an annual report about families' expenditures on children for use in developing state child-support and foster-care guidelines. Annual child-rearing expense estimates ranged between $12,290 and $14,320 for a child in a two-child, married-couple family in the middle-income group, which is defined as a before-tax income between $59,410 and $102,870. Getty Images美国农业部的这份报告每年发布一次，旨在为美国州政府处理子女赡养费用相关问题时提供指引。根据报告，有两名子女的中等收入已婚双亲家庭每年用于一个孩子的抚养开支估计在12,290美元到14,320美元之间。这里所说中等收入家庭是指税前收入在59,410美元到102,870美元之间的家庭。 The amount spent on a child by families in the highest income group, on average, was more than twice the amount spent by families in the lowest income group. A child born last year to someone in the lowest income group would cost $212,370 over 17 years, compared to $490,830 for highest earners. | 
