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Meeting Children’s Needs. Nurture Children. Providing the type of care that encourages healthy growth and development Giving a child opportunities for encouragement and enrichment
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Nurture Children • Providing the type of care that encourages healthy growth and development • Giving a child opportunities for encouragement and enrichment • When parents nurture, they show love, support and concern
Protect Children • Parents provide a watchful eye and quick reflexes to keep children safe. • Protect from others
Teach Children • Teaching is introducing new ideas, and providing stimulating environment. • Do you agree that parents are the child’s first teacher?
Guide Children • Using firmness and understanding to help children learn to control their own behavior How should parents guide children?
Provide Financial Support • Children are expensive • Financial resources are needed to pay for clothes, health care, food equipment, and other expenses
If income is below $38,000 you are in lower income. • If income is above $38,000 you are in higher income. • The USDA data, the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 is $124,800 for lower income to $170,460.00 for a higher income family • That doesn't even touch college tuition.
Financial Facts Parents who have a dual income of $40,000-$66,000 per year will spend approximately $170,000 on a child before age eighteen, about $10,000 per year.
Legal Responsibilities • Parents have a legal responsibility to provide food, clothing, shelter, medical care and education for their children. • Parents may also be financially responsible for damage to property or injury of another person caused by their child
What happens if legal needs are not met? • Parents can forfeit rights as parents. • If parents neglect their legal responsibilities as a parent, a judge may issue an order for termination of parental rights. • Reasons for termination of parental rights include severe abuse or neglect, abandonment, and long-term alcohol or drug abuse.
What happens to the child when parental rights are lost? • Foster care • Adoptive homes
The Cost of Raising a Child USDA 2006
Resource Time Go to websites below to find your family type and the cost of raising a family http://www.extension.umn.edu/info-u/finances/BF822.html http://www.babycenter.com/cost-of-raising-child-calculator http://www.bankrate.com/brm/calc/raiseChild.asp