The post-baby dilemma: stay home or return to work?

The average cost (Read More) of raising a child (from birth to age 18) for a middle-income family is $233,618. And that doesn’t include the cost of college, which is on the rise and outpacing inflation. 1 In fact, the cost of raising a child has increased greatly – by 40 percent from 2000 to 2010 – within a relatively short amount of time.