this is a economics question: what is the consumption function of a child ?
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in order to have a consumption function, the individual should be able to take actions in an independent manner. I'm not sure that children have their own consumption functions, since they are completely dependent on their parents' budget.\n\nI hope it helps.
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I feel your pain, however, you should familiarize yourself with the U.S. Constitution and learn that the pursuit of happiness is a very basic presumed right. High economical status is not a requirement for multiple children. Sorry grasshopper.
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This information is collected by a variety of government agencies, non-profits, consortia made up of gov, biz, and non-profits, and business entities. Here's a list of some of the best resources (and an indication of how far-ranging the sources of this information are).\n\nThe US government's stats aren't out for 2005 yet, but for years before that the best place to start is:\nhttp://stats.bls.gov/cex/home.htm\n- look under the "Economic News Releases"\n\nThe Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago does all kinds of consumer spending research and creates forecasts. One such document in late 2005 will give you an idea of what kind of info you can get on their site: \nhttp://www.chicagofed.org/news_and_conferences/conferences_and_events/files/2005_eos_swonk.pdf\n\nHere's a good page on who spends what money on what things:\nhttp://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/lets/0902ltb.html\n\nYou can look at "Expenditures on Children by Families"\nhttp://www.usda.gov/cnpp/using2.html\n\nOther:\n1) Do a search in google/yahoo/ask.com on "consumer spending" (and DO use those quote marks)\n2) Do that same search, but put in the name of the specific "thing" after the first phrase (electronics, for instance, will get you links to ZDNet pages)\n3) Go to your local university library where they have a marketing/business program. Ask a business librarian where to get this information in the library. There are GREAT paper resources for this kind of question.\n4) Find that library online (or your local public library) and figure out if you can ask this question either by phone or by email. There are proprietary (and expensive) databases that have this information that you may be able to get access to if you have a library card.
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There are many different kids of needs. I am guessing you are a psychology student. You should have asked from which theorist. Anyway, Maslow for example has two types of needs: growth needs and deficiency needs. At the bottom are deficiency needs including physiological needs (food, drinks), safety needs (security, psychological safety), belongingness and love needs (affiliation, acceptance, affection), esteem needs (approval and recognition). Then we get into the three growth needs: cognitive needs (knowledge, understanding), aesthetic needs (beauty, symmetry), and finally self-actualization. In order for the latter needs to be achieved, the ones prior must be met. It works like a "need hierarchy". Although this might not be what you are looking for, it's a start
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Serious question: I consulted with Tooth Fairy and she told me that if the child has been brushing his/her teeth properly and if he/she does not eat a lot of chocolate, she might consider Indian Rupees 100( about US $ 2.2) for the first tooth and half of that for the subsequent ones.
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to answer this question we first need to know how children are assets or liability for the country. then we can easily answer how they can/could be assets of a nation.\n\nchildren become assets for any nation once they start to contribute to the nation in some or the other way. this is usually taken to be in economic terms.\nin economics, children are considered a burden till they attain the age of 16 yrs, which is considered the average age when a child starts earning.\n\ntill the time they contribute they are using resources of the country (and not contributing) which is an asset if they later contribute towards nations growth and a liability in the opposite case.\n\nfor example: till the time a person starts earning (thereby contributing to national income) he is using the country's resources. so if the child dies in infancy it is wastage of country's resources the child consumed till he died.\n\ncoming to the second part- how children can be assets of a nation...\n\nwell, children can effectively contribute by increasing country's wealth (this includes setting up profitable industries, once they grow up of course!), help in efficient utilisation of resources (this would include minimisation of wastage of resources like electricity etc) etc
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it depends what she's expected to do with the money... fun stuff only?  or is she expcted to buy school lunches?  clothes?  movies?\n\nwill you still buy the child books or treats? or is he on his own?  \n\nAt age 8, I started my kid at $2/week, and she got a $.50 raise at age 9 and again at age 10.  I expect that she'll be up to $5 by age 12.  Anyway she is not expected to contribute her allowance toward any regular expenses, and can spend her allowance pretty much how she chooses, within my guidelines.  \n\nGood luck!
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Basic, nutritious, unprocessed food is not expensive. If children go hungry, it is because their lazy parient/s spend money on smokes, booze, drugs and gambling.
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A babysitter came over one day to babysit 10 children. She decided to give them a snack. In a jar there were 10 cookies. She wants to give each one a cookie, but still keep one in the jar. How will she do it? (WITHOUT BREAKING ANY COOKIES-EACH CHILD HAS TO GET A WHOLE!)
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I guess you are talking about Ernest Engel. He has some work on microeconomics. He has a graph that explains the patterns of conduct of housholds in expending as its level of income increases. I cant seem to find the graph for you to see the curve, but it describes that housholds spend most of their income in food, clothes and house when income is low. As income goes up, cloth and food do go up, but very little, since now they are using extra income for better home, transportation and entertainment and saving. Saving only begins at a certain level of income, as entertainment. \n\ni found a better explanation for the curve: In economics, an Engel curve shows how the quantity demanded of a good or service changes as the consumers income level changes. It is named after the 19th century German statistician Ernst Engel.\n\nGraphically, the Engel curve is represented in the first-quadrant of the cartesian coordinate system. Income is shown on the Y-axis and the quantity demanded for the selected good or service is shown on the X-axis.\n\nFor normal goods, the Engel curve has a positive slope. That is, as income increases, the quantity demanded increases. For inferior goods, the Engel curve has a negative slope. That means that as the consumer has more income, they will stop buying the inferior goods because they are able to purchase better goods. For goods with Marshallian demand function generated by a utility in Gorman polar form, the Engel curve has a constant slope.\n(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engel_curve)
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there a re a few answers to  the  question, depending on age  is important one, allowance     should be earned by  chores  and good manners  and respect, also  the  amount of allownace is important . and where  they spend it. todays  children have access   to weapons and  drugs at a early  age. so my answer  is complex. age, what they do with thier allowance . help  and guide  them  in their spending choices. and  open them a  bank acc/in  parents  name and theirs with only withdrawls  signed  by  parents  . pocket   money arises   drugs and problems, with  peers  and importantly  . the child  learns  no value unless earned.
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I suppose you were given more than those three consumption figures, but didn't put them in here? \nYou could plot these points on a graph, putting the mass values along the horizontal axis and the consumptions on the vertical.  If they are in a straight line, or nearly so, continue the line back to the point above 25kg on the mass scale, and see what consumption value it has.
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I believe if you run a day care for profit, you can deduct the diapers and milk that you use in the day to day running of the day care.\n\nI believe that if your child has specific medical needs that require twice boiled and homogenized fresh dairy goat milk, that you can claim this as a medical expense.  I think this is also true with diapers if your child is on a diuretic that would cause him/her to need an excessive number of diapers.  [This is true if you have a medical savings account.  You can pay for these through that.  You cannot pay for diapers and milk through the medical savings account if they are not medically necessary.]  I believe you would need documentation on file from your doctor that this is the case.  BTW: If that were the case, it is likely that you could get help through Medicaid.  See your local Dept. of Health.
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Fascinating question.  I think I will try to answer it philosophically, because I lack specific statistics.\n\nThe majority of retail spending in this country is often referred to as "conspicuous consumption."  Chief among these is more generally known as "fashion," and more realistically referred to as "fad."  That is, what most American teens (who make up the shock wave of fad, after all; it's inevitable) spend money on is what most American teens spend money on.  That is, convince a kid it's "cool," or that "all the coolest people buy them," and they buy it.  Because "everyone else" or "everyone cool" is buying it.\n\nAnd usually, with girls, the thing is clothes, and that means a consciousness of what size you wear.  What friends can you trade clothes with?  Those are the ones you go shopping with.  They take community interest in an outfit, and get three or four times the wear out of it.  And the smartest "gangs" including one a size smaller, preferably who has a rich father, two or three that can share, and one a size larger who gets the cast-offs as they lose weight again.\n\nSo the second thing they spend money on is trying to lose weight. That is probably the most lucrative side of our economy after fashion, and they are the best of friends, go to the same clubs, and buy stock in one another's companies.\n\nAnd THAT's what Americans buy when they can: stock in the companies that are fueled by the emotional lack of control of a mass of teenagers and young adults who just want to be cool.\n\nPitiful, ain't it?
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milk should not be consumed after child years. The Dairy Associations only tell you to drink it for their profit only. Oh, the government gets a cut of the profits, too.\n\nHumans are the only animals that consume milk long after childhood.\n\nThe nutrients found in milk can be attained by eating certain vegetables like broccoli.
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try these sites:\n\nhttp://cowles.econ.yale.edu/news/bewley/tfb_00-08_human.htm\n\nhttp://www.nmconline.org/articles/SOP.pdf\n\nhttp://cowles.econ.yale.edu/news/bewley/tfb_00-08_human.htm\n\ngood luck!
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How is it exactly that consumers are being abused? I agree that Consumerism very well could run this country into the ground, but that is the fault of consumers living beyond their means and borrowing to do so- not capitalism's fault.  Capitalism is simply the freeing up of people to make their own decisions in what they think is their own best interest.