The High Costs of Raising Children

It is found that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 21 is $338,000. Providing shelter will cost about $105,000 until the age of 18. Food will cost about $41,400 and health care costs will be about $17,400. The overall average cost also includes the cost of college.

Japan’s Oldest Person Dies at Age 113

Japan’s oldest person was a woman named Tsuneyo Toyonaga who died on Friday. She died days after she was transferred from her nursing home to a close hospital because she had lost her appetite and wouldn’t eat. She had been in a nursing home for the past 12 years. She was born on May 21, 1984 and had 5 children and 10 grandchildren.

Another woman named Kaku Yamanaka is now Japan’s oldest person. She was born on Dec11, 1984 and lives in a nursing home in Aichi, central Japan.

The number of people in Japan that live more than 100 years old has nearly quadrupled in the past 10 years and the number is still increasing. Japan has one of the world’s longest average life spans. This fact is largely due to many people in Japan having a diet that is rich in fish and rice. Japanese women have an average life expectancy of 85.81 years and the men have an average of 79 years.