Caring for Special Needs Children Costs U.S. Families $17.6 billion in Lost Wages

American families spend 1.5 billion hours each year providing home health care to disabled or chronically ill children, costing them $17.6 billion in lost wages, according to a new study published in the December 27, 2016 journal Pediatrics. One in five U.S. families has a child with special health care needs, according to the U.S.…