Being a parent is hugely costly and I’ve often wondered how single-parent families cope not only emotionally but also financially… Sure there are the general living costs such as gas, electricity, water, food, clothing and such like, not to mention childcare if you are a working parent, but then there’s all the other stuff; Christmas, birthdays, the toys, the entertainment, the days out, all of which on only one wage rather than two must be extremely difficult. Did you know that 25% of families within the UK are ‘single-parent families’? Nine out of ten of these are run by single …
