There's a saying in the horse world, often grumbled by parents whose bank accounts have been emptied by the sport's high cost but who are relieved by the knowledge that their teenage daughters are more obsessed with horses than they are with boys: Horseback riding is the world's most expensive form of birth control.
In the cities with lower rents the age at first birth can vary from 26 to 31, but general support for the overall relationship of housing costs and births is provided by the fact that, of the 15 cities with rents under $800 a month, 11 cities have first births between 26 and 28.5 while the four most expensive cities have first births at close to 32 years of age.
Many indicated they were specifically seeking an exemption from providing the most expensive (and also the most effective) forms of birth control, like IUDs. .
It's often described as Griffith's cinematic apology for "Birth of a Nation," which makes it sound like the most expensive community service ever undertaken.
The study showed Australia was one of the most expensive countries in the world for women to give birth, ranking behind only the US.
Of the three methods available for ordering your birth certificate, ordering online is the most expensive.
Parents who make contributions within the annual gift-tax limit ($12,000 per parent in 2007) upon a child's birth can reasonably expect to fully cover even the most expensive college's costs, assuming moderate returns on investments.
Over all, the table and figure suggest that much of the change in the age at first birth is being generated largely by delayed fertility in the most expensive housing markets.
Bryant got his unique name because shortly before his birth his parents saw a restaurant menu advertising Kobe steak, the Japanese beef that is among the most expensive in the world.
Despite being the most expensive system in the world in terms of the share of gross domestic product [ 1], the life expectancy from birth is one of the lowest of the developed countries [ 2].
