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Here's What It Will Cost to Raise a 2026 Baby
Here's What It Will
Cost to Raise a
2026 Baby
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Apr 11, 2026 4:11 PM CDT

Here's What It Will Cost to Raise a 2026 Baby

Total will top $300K before college, according to LendingTree analysis

(Newser) - That bundle of joy is also a $300,000 line item, according to a new LendingTree analysis . It estimates that a middle-income couple with around $100,000 in income will shell out $303,418 to raise a child born in 2026 through age 18—averaging about $16,857 a year,...

Instagram Will Alert Parents to Teens' Self-Harm Searches

Alerts will include guidance for parents on mental health conversations

(Newser) - Parents could soon get a digital heads-up if their teen is looking for the darkest corners of Instagram. Meta says that beginning next week, adults who've enabled Instagram's supervision tools will be notified when a teen repeatedly carries out searches for content or terms tied to suicide or...

More Parents Rebuff a Key Vitamin K Shot for Newborns

Doctors blame misinformation, anti-vaccine rhetoric for refusal on shot, which helps prevent brain bleeds

(Newser) - Pediatric providers say that newborns in the United States are increasingly leaving the hospital without a long-standard vitamin shot that prevents dangerous bleeding, reports the New York Times . The injection delivers vitamin K, which infants lack at birth and don't get in sufficient amounts from the placenta or breast...

A Flawed Major Drug-Testing Lab Dodged Questions for Years

Averhealth's probation was kept hidden as families faced custody loss, other issues

(Newser) - Michigan child welfare workers were raising red flags about drug tests years before they learned the lab behind them had been quietly put on probation by its accreditor. In a deep dive by ProPublica , internal emails show supervisors at Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services repeatedly questioned results...

She Lets Her Child Watch TV, but There's a Catch

JoAnna Novak has starting watching along with her 6-year-old, and learning about him

(Newser) - Writer JoAnna Novak has a 6-year-old son who likes to watch Paw Patrol. Yes, she is fully aware of the TV-is-bad-for-kids narrative, but Novak has found a way to make it work in her family. In a New York Times essay, she explains that she's begun watching episodes with...

Michelle Obama Won't Ask Malia, Sasha One Question

'Are you dating anyone?' is something ex-first lady tries to avoid with daughters, she says on podcast

(Newser) - Michelle Obama says she's trying to retire one of the most common small-talk questions moms ask their daughters: "Are you dating anyone?" In a surprise showing on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday, the former first lady, who just turned 62, said she's aware...

The Problem With Being a 'Morning Person'
The Problem
With Being
a 'Morning
Person'
essay
Nov 23, 2025 9:20 AM CST

The Problem With Being a 'Morning Person'

Liz Krieger writes about missing out on family and friend dynamics

(Newser) - Being a mom of two young kids turned Liz Krieger into a morning person, and even though those kids are not so young anymore—12 and 16—she never shook the habit. The upside is that those early hours "feel sacred," Krieger writes in an Atlantic essay. "...

Americans Say Kids Cost Too Much
Americans Say Kids
Cost Too Much
Nov 14, 2025 11:52 AM CST

Americans Say Kids Cost Too Much

Majority cite finances as top reason for limiting family size, per new survey

(Newser) - A growing majority of Americans say the high cost of living is the main reason they're having fewer children, according to a nationwide survey. The latest American Family Survey , conducted by Brigham Young University's Wheatley Institute and Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, found that 70%...

Kelsey Grammer Welcomes 8th Child at 70

The actor and wife Kayte Walsh welcome baby boy Christopher

(Newser) - Kelsey Grammer is a dad once again, welcoming his eighth child at the age of 70. Grammer shared the news that his wife, Kayte Walsh, 46, gave birth to a son named Christopher during his appearance on the Pod Meets World podcast. "It was like three days ago,"...

Federline: Spears' Sons Have Cut Contact Over Safety Fears

Singer's ex says Sean, 20, and Jayden, 19, haven't visited Spears in months due to fears

(Newser) - Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline says their sons have stopped visiting their pop star mom, claiming they're "terrified" and worried about her well-being. Federline made the comments Thursday in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, reports Page Six . Spears "saw one of my sons one day this...

A Shift in Financial Planning: Helping Out Adult Children

Wall Street Journal looks at the shifting attitudes in favor

(Newser) - A Wall Street Journal story about what it sees as an evolution in financial planning is pegged on a telling stat from the Pew Research Center : Roughly 60% of parents with kids ages 18 to 34 had helped them out financially in the previous year. That might mean something as...

Dad's Attempt to Stop Kids From Saying 'Mom' Goes Viral

Pennsylvania's Mike Korba staged an 'intervention' to help his frazzled wife out

(Newser) - Any parent, or even casual Family Guy viewer , can describe to you the sometimes mind-numbing feeling of your young child or children calling out your name on repeat. One Pennsylvania dad staged an "intervention" on behalf of his wife after their three kids simply wouldn't stop calling her...

10 Best, Worst States to Welcome New Life

Having a baby is best in Massachusetts, worst in Mississippi, per WalletHub

(Newser) - Even if having a family has long been on your radar, practicalities still have to come into play when baby fever hits hard—including where the best place is to have said baby in these high-inflation, high-medical-bill times, per WalletHub . The site looked at all 50 states and DC across...

Parents Who Seek Help Need to Lighten Up
Parents Who Seek Help
Need to Lighten Up
OPINION
Jul 28, 2025 12:52 PM CDT

Parents Who Seek Help Need to Lighten Up

Marina Lopes writes that it's OK for kids to be exposed to different parenting styles

(Newser) - In a Washington Post op-ed on parenting, Marina Lopes writes that she frequently leaves her children with a friend who lives next door. She and her friend have different parenting styles, the friend's being much stricter. And Lopes is fine with that, as are her kids, who have learned...

Looks Like Baby No. 8 for Kelsey Grammer

Kayte Walsh, wife of 70-year-old Frasier actor, appears to be pregnant with their 4th child together

(Newser) - Baby No. 8 is apparently on its way for Kelsey Grammer, his fourth with fourth wife Kayte Walsh. The New York Post notes that although the two haven't publicly announced they're with child, pictures of them out and about in London on Tuesday, including those featured in People...

Oprah: Barbara Walters Is Partly Why I'm Childless

After seeing Walters' 'complex' relationship with daughter, Winfrey declined to have her own

(Newser) - A new documentary on Barbara Walters starts streaming on Hulu on June 23, but some revelations have leaked in advance—including a confession by Oprah Winfrey about the woman she calls her mentor. Appearing in Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything, Winfrey, 71, notes that the late TV journalist had a...

In US, 1 in 4 Kids Has Parent Struggling With Addiction

New study links parental addiction to higher risks for children

(Newser) - A new study in JAMA Pediatrics finds that nearly 19 million US children under the age of 18—about 1 in 4—live with at least one parent with a substance use disorder, a figure notably higher than earlier estimates that relied on older diagnostic criteria. This study used...

Florida Teacher Canned for Using Student's Preferred Name

High school educator Melissa Calhoun's contract won't be renewed for next year, per Brevard district

(Newser) - A Florida teacher at an arts magnet school is out of a job after addressing a student by a name they wished to be called. Per ClickOrlando.com , Brevard Public Schools says it won't be renewing a contract next year for Melissa Calhoun, an educator at Satellite High School...

Sibling Gifts for Birthday Kids? For Kylie Kelce, 'Not Happening'

Podcast host says she's 'vehemently against' asking people to bring gifts for birthday kid's siblings

(Newser) - If you're really not into the "everyone gets a trophy" mantra, there's another parenting trend going around you'll also probably balk at. On her Not Gonna Lie podcas t last week, Kylie Kelce—wife of retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, and sister-in-law to Taylor Swift'...

Parents, Your White Lie About Pain May Backfire
Parents, Your White Lie
About Pain May Backfire
OPINION
Feb 17, 2025 2:25 PM CST

Parents, Your White Lie About Pain May Backfire

Allison Sweet Grant writes that adults need to stop telling kids 'this won't hurt'

(Newser) - When she was a child, Allison Sweet Grant underwent leg surgery and followup procedures that doctors told her wouldn't result in much pain. They meant well, but the "difference between what I was told and what I experienced shattered my faith in doctors and left me questioning whether...

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