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Meeting Children’s Needs

Learn how to meet children's needs, protect them, teach and guide them effectively. Understand financial aspects and legal responsibilities of parenting. Find resources to help raise your child responsibly.

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Meeting Children’s Needs

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  1. Meeting Children’s Needs

  2. 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

  3. Protect Children • Parents provide a watchful eye and quick reflexes to keep children safe. • Protect from others

  4. Teach Children • Teaching is introducing new ideas, and providing stimulating environment. • Do you agree that parents are the child’s first teacher?

  5. Guide Children • Using firmness and understanding to help children learn to control their own behavior How should parents guide children?

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. What happens to the child when parental rights are lost? • Foster care • Adoptive homes

  11. Provide Financial Support • Children are expensive • Financial resources are needed to pay for clothes, health care, food equipment, and other expenses

  12. The Cost of Raising a Child USDA 2006

  13. 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

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