Explain how the author's cultural background is related in mama's point of view about peasants in the story. cite at least two details from the text to support your answer

Which number is main idea form this paragraph? (1) in 1960, raising a child from birth to age 18 cost just over $25,000. (2) however, raising a child today is an expensive business. (3) the average cost now is just about $230,000. (4) housing takes the biggest chunk of money, about $70,000. (5) that is followed by the cost of food, which runs about $42,000, and following closely after that are the expenses of child care and education, transportation, health care, and clothing. (6) the cost averages out to about $12,800 a year, or about $1000 a month, to raise one child in a two-child, two-parent, middle-income family.