Why the cost of parenting has become so expensive

Scanning the insurance company Aviva’s recent computation of the cost of bringing up a child here in 2015, I found myself remembering the conversations I used to have a few years ago with my friend Jeremy. The proud father of four school-age progeny, and an MBA to boot, Jeremy had the whole thing – short of earning the actual money, that is – reduced to an exact science. Spreadsheets recorded current and projected expenditure. Devious actuarial calculations came into play. Minute adjustme