WHERE do they get these people???? Read this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1597729.html

I did division -- using 18 years, not 17 -- and the average cost per year to raise a child was almost $14,000!!!!

$472 x 12 equals a little less than $6,000 per year.................so, seems like the SSA lady should have been asking you HOW you managed so WELL!!!