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Toxic media treats kids as luxury goods — and it’s destroying us

Nypost · · 765 words · By Bethany Mandel
Birth Rate Decline Generational Parenting Differences Cost of Living vs. Cultural Expectations
open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/opinion/were-treating-kids-as-luxury-goods-and-its…

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5 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Princess Eugenie announced last week that she’s expecting her third child”
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Two independent news sources (Nbcwashington and Krdo) both report that Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank announced they are expecting their third child.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Britain’s Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, announced Monday that they are expecting their third child.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-ne…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Britain’s Princess Eugenie is expecting her third child with her husband Jack Brooksbank, Buckingham Palace announced on Monday.
https://krdo.com/news/2026/05/04/princess-eugenie-pregnant-w…
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“Eugenie is joining several royal moms, including Catherine, Princess of Wales and Zara Tindall, who are embracing life with three or more kids”
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The provided evidence confirms the identities of Princess Eugenie, Catherine, and Zara Tindall, but does not provide the number of children each has to verify if they all have 'three or more'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales.
https://www.royal.uk/the-princess-of-wales
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web search NEUTRAL — Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall is a British equestrian, Olympian, and member of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and Captain Mark Phillips, and the eldest niece of K…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_Tindall
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web search NEUTRAL — Princess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie and she is 12th in line to the throne. Like her sister Princ…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c867plj4vgqo
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“Last month a study commissioned by LendingTree calculated that it costs $400,000 a year for a family with two children to feel financially secure in modern America.”
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The web search results for LendingTree provide general information about the company's services and reviews, but do not contain the specific study or the $400,000 figure mentioned in the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — LendingTree helps you compare loans, insurance, mortgages, credit cards, and other financial products — so you can make smarter choices and save money. When banks compete, you win.
https://www.lendingtree.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — LendingTreeApply.com helps you compare top lenders and apply for personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and refinancing. Get matched with the best rates in minutes — no impact to your credit score.
https://www.lendingtreeapply.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — LendingTree is an online loan marketplace that works with a network of more than 300 lenders. Loans generally range from $1,000 to $50,000, but some partners may offer up to $100,000. Because ...
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-loans/lendingtree-pe…
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“exorbitant costs — $300,000 from birth through age 18 — that now supposedly accompanies raising kids.”
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Multiple sources discuss the high cost of raising children; specifically, FOX 29 Philadelphia explicitly states the average cost to raise a child born in 2015 through age 17 is now more than $300,000.
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web search NEUTRAL — Health does not allow for children. 18%. Children cost too much.Raising a child cost an average of €120,000 from birth to age 18, or about 17% of one's disposable income as of 2019.[154][155].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_childlessness
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web search NEUTRAL — That's roughly $18,270 a year, a 9% increase from the previous estimate due to rising prices wreaking havoc on Americans' budgets. 8f1ac661-child. The average cost to raise a child born in 2015 throug…
https://www.fox29.com/news/cost-raising-child-jumps
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web search NEUTRAL — Raising a child in the U.S. costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.And to be sure, it's increasingly expensive to raise a child, with one study finding parents typically spend about $240,000 on each k…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millennials-gen-z-childless-mon…
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“If you look at this nation’s plummeting birth rate”
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Three independent sources (Population Reference Bureau, NPR, and another news report) all confirm that the U.S. birth rate/fertility rate is declining.
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web search NEUTRAL — The U.S. birthrate is declining. Rose Paz’s choices help explain why. Ms. Paz, 22, grew up in Salt Lake City, the eldest of three children, born when her mother, an immigrant from Mexico, was 16.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/politics/us-birthrate-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The fertility rate in the U.S. has dropped steadily. Last year, there were roughly 710,000 fewer children born in the U.S. compared with the peak in 2007."Since 2007, there's been a decline in the gen…
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5779627/birthrate-unite…
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web search NEUTRAL — The birth rate for women ages 40 to 44 is lower in the United States today than it was during the baby boom years of the 1950s and early 1960s. However, the birth rate for women ages 40 to 44 has rise…
https://www.prb.org/resource/why-is-the-u-s-birth-rate-decli…
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