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£186,000
is apparently how much raising a kid will set you back.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20071207/tuk-raising-a-child-now-costs-186000-6323e80_2.html
By my reckoning, I didn't cost my parents nearly that much; little to no childcare costs (although my parents income was obviously halfed by one of them staying home until my sisters and I were all at school), no nursery fees, no private education and they didn't pay for me to go to uni (they gave me about £100 at one point but that was it).
Obviously I was born and raised at a different time to that which this average was based on though. Using these figures, how much did you cost your parents?