[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.