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La Embajada ya tiene página web !!!!
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Bueno, son las 4.15 y obviamente sigo en la oficina. Mañana parto a Wirksworth Town hasta el lunes a la tarde asi que no creo que me vuelva a conectar hasta entonces. Deseenme suerte que el domingo tocamos por primera vez en Inglaterra !! Aguante el UK Circle !!!! Que nerrrrvios !!!!
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Aca encontré una nota interesante en el diario The Guardian:
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£43,056 - the cost of bringing up a child
· Survey of parents finds 16 is the most expensive age
· Only 4% regret having children because of cost
Polly Curtis
Thursday February 16, 2006
The Guardian
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It is the age when many teenagers consider themselves grown up, but research has found that 16-year-olds are the most expensive children in the UK, costing their parents an average of £64 a week.
· Survey of parents finds 16 is the most expensive age
· Only 4% regret having children because of cost
Polly Curtis
Thursday February 16, 2006
The Guardian
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It is the age when many teenagers consider themselves grown up, but research has found that 16-year-olds are the most expensive children in the UK, costing their parents an average of £64 a week.
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The survey found that parents have to spend £27 on keeping them nourished, £7 on clothing, £12 on entertainment and food as well as £4 on pocket money.
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The day-to-day costs of bringing up a child creep up from the day they are born amounting to a total of £43,056 by the time they reach 18, the survey for Family Circle magazine revealed. The nappy years cost parents around £45 a week, the first year in school sees a rise to £53 a week while the move to secondary school sees a dip to £51 a week. But the most expensive year is sweet 16 - mainly because of their growing appetites - after which teenagers are more likely to get a part-time job to finance their burgeoning social lives. Half of all parents in the poll said they put aside between £3 and £7 a week to fund their children's extra curricular classes, including extra tuition for exams, football coaching or piano lessons.
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But the cost does not stop at 16: 70% of parents said they would help their child buy their first car and 80% expect to fund part of their university education. Some 44% will also help their child buy their first home.
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The biggest bill for parents in their children's formative years is food. The average child consumes £1,100 of groceries every year, with £364 spent on clothing. The bills ease as 16-year-olds get jobs and buy their own clothes. A quarter of all parents of teenagers say they prefer not to get involved in their children's clothes shopping as their children are far happier doing it on their own. Parents pay £364 a year for "extras", including family holidays and presents on top of the average of £260 a year in pocket money for all children up until the age of 18. Only 4% of the parents said they regretted having children because of the cost.
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Karen Livermore, editor of Family Circle, said: "Parents often have little choice, you can't underestimate pester power and that pressure is on them for longer as children are now more likely to stay in education than leave school and home in their teens." The price of child-rearing was put at £165,668 by the friendly society Liverpool Victoria last year. But the authors of today's research said it was the first based on interviews with parents rather than estimates based on national averages.
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The poll, sponsored by the debit card company Maestro, surveyed 1,079 parents of 2,129 children. Mary MacLeod, chief executive of the National Family and Parenting Institute, said: "There is enormous peer pressure on parents and it's one of the biggest complaints that parents make.
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"It's very hard to say no to a persuasive teenager who is being constantly marketed at and told to buy the latest video game or fashion item. We did a survey which revealed that 84% of parents feel under pressure to buy their children expensive items."
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The survey found that parents have to spend £27 on keeping them nourished, £7 on clothing, £12 on entertainment and food as well as £4 on pocket money.
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The day-to-day costs of bringing up a child creep up from the day they are born amounting to a total of £43,056 by the time they reach 18, the survey for Family Circle magazine revealed. The nappy years cost parents around £45 a week, the first year in school sees a rise to £53 a week while the move to secondary school sees a dip to £51 a week. But the most expensive year is sweet 16 - mainly because of their growing appetites - after which teenagers are more likely to get a part-time job to finance their burgeoning social lives. Half of all parents in the poll said they put aside between £3 and £7 a week to fund their children's extra curricular classes, including extra tuition for exams, football coaching or piano lessons.
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But the cost does not stop at 16: 70% of parents said they would help their child buy their first car and 80% expect to fund part of their university education. Some 44% will also help their child buy their first home.
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The biggest bill for parents in their children's formative years is food. The average child consumes £1,100 of groceries every year, with £364 spent on clothing. The bills ease as 16-year-olds get jobs and buy their own clothes. A quarter of all parents of teenagers say they prefer not to get involved in their children's clothes shopping as their children are far happier doing it on their own. Parents pay £364 a year for "extras", including family holidays and presents on top of the average of £260 a year in pocket money for all children up until the age of 18. Only 4% of the parents said they regretted having children because of the cost.
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Karen Livermore, editor of Family Circle, said: "Parents often have little choice, you can't underestimate pester power and that pressure is on them for longer as children are now more likely to stay in education than leave school and home in their teens." The price of child-rearing was put at £165,668 by the friendly society Liverpool Victoria last year. But the authors of today's research said it was the first based on interviews with parents rather than estimates based on national averages.
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The poll, sponsored by the debit card company Maestro, surveyed 1,079 parents of 2,129 children. Mary MacLeod, chief executive of the National Family and Parenting Institute, said: "There is enormous peer pressure on parents and it's one of the biggest complaints that parents make.
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"It's very hard to say no to a persuasive teenager who is being constantly marketed at and told to buy the latest video game or fashion item. We did a survey which revealed that 84% of parents feel under pressure to buy their children expensive items."
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