But as Williams says, this doesn't wash. Married people have affairs allthe time. Husbands do it, wives do it. Yet very few people take this asa reason to kill their children. Jealousy alone cannot explain it.
Her explanation is mental illness. If true, it is a call for betteradult mental health services - for children's sake.
- The media like annual surveys on the costs of bringing up a child.
So they dutifully reported Liverpool Victoria's finding that parentscould spend 180,137 on raising a child from birth to age 21.Though most fudged the all-important qualifier "could", hence a rash ofheadlines about how the cost of bringing up a child has rocketed.
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