Donne's father died suddenly in 1576, and left the three children to be raised by their mother, Elizabeth, the daughter of John Heywood, epigrammatist, and a relative of Sir Thomas More.
What with pre-nuptial arrangements, palimony, child custody, we have become accustomed to the short-lived, high octane relationships on which glossy magazines feed.
Now instead of covering only his expenses, he has to cover his child and probably wife's expenses as well, but his salary only has increased by 15 percent in the last 5 years.
Women do things they'd like to do in the home like raise their children but they also are saddled with doing all kinds of chores whether it's cleaning dishes or collecting firewood or going and collecting water.
He gives advice on family finances, things like everything parents need to know about managing the costs of bringing up children, sending them to university, and actually, also, about care for elderly relatives.