Family compared all the opportunity costs of children to value of children accordingly.

家庭生育选择也是对生养孩子的机会成本与孩子的价值进行权衡的过程。

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The authors suggest rationalizing the financial costs of children reduces cognitive dissonance, or the tendency for people to resolve contradictory thoughts.

作者指出为抚养孩子要巨大花费找借口减少了内心冲突，或者有为人民减轻矛盾思想的趋势。

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I watched as women and children danced and sang their thanks for one sachet of water that costs less than 5p (8 US cents).

我看到妇女和儿童为得到一袋价值不足5便士（8美分）的水而跳舞并歌唱他们的感谢。

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And for the government, which pays for the health-care costs of many children, the very poor, the retired, veterans and its own servants, the geometrically rising price of cover is inexorably busting the budget.

ECONOMIST: Welcome attention to the real problem

For these women, most of whom never envisioned having to choose between careers and children, the costs of workplace inflexibility are up close and personal -- diverted dreams and forgone earnings and independence.

CNN: Bravo to Sheryl Sandberg for leaving work at 5:30

Then there are the long-term costs of providing specialist treatment to children.

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