Menthol and methyl salicylate are the main active ingredients of peppermint. Internally, they have anti-spasmodic actions, with calming effects on the muscles of the stomach, intestinal tract, and uterus.
âHowever, if you have three kids, ages 11, 13, and 16, your costs will be $25,880 â in other words, the third kid is costing just $2,880 extra.â. And very big families, she says, believe this is true.âAll of them told me that the marginal cost of children falls precipitously,â she said.âIâm sure this is partly true, though it also depends on what you plan to do for the kids â most of them donât plan to pay for college. They also tend not to buy plane tickets for 16 people.â. Her conclusions so far:arsing Department of Agriculture data (click here and see Page 7) she finds that âif you have two kids, ages 13 and 16, your costs as a middle-income family will be $23,000 per yearâ to feed, house and clothe them.
Adjusted for inflation, the cost of raising a child born last year will be about $304,480, on average, for the average middle-income family, which the government defined as those with pre-tax annual income between $61,300 and $106,140.Costs are lower for lower-income families.amilies living in urban areas in the Midwest had a slightly lower cost than the national average, or $240,570. Families in the urban Northeast had the highest cost of raising a child to adulthood: $282,480. That was followed by the urban West at $261,330.