“It is quite a job to make ends meet every month,” says Charlotte Van Broekhoven (53) about the rising costs of raising children. Since her divorce twelve years ago, she has been a single mother of Shalini (24), Thiago (22), Thalia (18) and Emilio (16). This is how she makes ends meet, and no, she does not do that by saving on her children’s study costs.
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Charlotte (53), single mother of four, about the cost of children: “When the eldest moved into a room, it cost 300 euros per month. Today that is at least 500 euros”
