When it comes to the cost of raising a child, from infancy to the age of 17, in the United States, it's hard to settle on a precise figure.

There's one thing we do know, it's going to be expensive.

In 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service put out a number,

it estimated that a middle-income two-parent

family with two children could expect to spend close to $14,000 per year to raise one child

born in 2015. Now, add that up over the course of 17 years and you are north of $233,000. Again, those figures are from 2015.

Adjust for inflation and raising a kid to adulthood could cost a middle-class family close to

$320,000. That money goes to child care, health care, food, clothes, education, transportation, activities, toys, and a lot more.

And all of those things will be affected one way or another by the Trump administration's tariff policy.

Meaning, if these tariffs stick around a while, the cost of raising a child in the U.S.

just got even more expensive. And for the companies that sell products geared at raising

those kids, they're going to fill the pinch as well.

Our whole industry has stopped ordering products from China due to the 145% tariffs.

That is Stephen Dunn, CEO of Munchkin, Inc., a U.S.-based company selling juvenile and

maternal products. Think sippy cups, bath toys, breast pumps. So consider this. Being a parent

in the U.S. is already expensive. Slopping tariffs on the products kids use could make it more so.

From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly.

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