Poppendieck lays this out well in her book, showing how,
after normal household expenses, such a family could struggle to come up with the reduced price each day, five days a week, for their children.
Not exact matches
After all, there's going to be a new person in the
household, which means the
normal lifestyle and expenses need to be shifted to accommodate.
In a perfect world, neither party would touch the financial accounts except to pay
normal household bills until
after the divorce is over.
It was bound to happen
after an unprecedented five consecutive years of deeply suppressed
household formation — less than half the
normal rate at 500,000 new
households per year from 2007 to 2011.