[prmoustache]

That's not me who did the math.

It was data from Switzerland though. But still 1 million USD in Switzerland is still a large amount and much 50 to 100 times higher than IVF and the same ratio would probably applies in many countries.

Bottom line is if you can't swallow the IVF price, you'd better not have kids in the first place because your kid will cost you much more than that every single year.

[xyzzyz]

Regular people in Switzerland don’t spend as much either. Regular people in Switzerland will maybe barely make $1M over 20 years, so to suggest that this is how much it costs to raise a single child, even in such a wealthy and developed county as Switzerland, is absurd.

[prmoustache]

OK I stand corrected I found the study. Half a million for 2 kids, the first one representing the most of it (380k).

Calculation involves direct costs (upwards of 200k per kid) + indirect costs (bigger housing, owning bigger cars, more items, moving closer to good schools or quiet/safer places, etc).

Still I stand by the idea that if you can't swallow the IVF price you will be in a bad situation in the long term.