Our Credit Crunch Commune ; Feeling the Pinch? These Three Families Were -- And Found a Very 21st-Century Solution [Eire Region]
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LAST summer, Maria Roberts was living a pretty dreary existence. There she was, single mother to a nine-year-old son, living in a small, two-bedroom house on a Manchester estate, getting by on the money she earned as a writer.
'I felt I was failing,' she says. 'I didn't want my son growing up in a pokey flat in a rundown area.' Fast forward to 2009 and life is very different. Home is a spacious four-bedroom house in a leafy London suburb, with two reception rooms, a state-of-the-art kitchen and an airy dining room with French doors that lead to a 60ft lawned garden.See the full content of this document
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Our Credit Crunch Commune ; Feeling the Pinch? These Three Families Were -- And Found a Very 21st-Century Solution [Eire Region]
This is where son Patrick can be found playing football with the other males of the household. For Maria and her son now share a home -- and much of their lives -- with two other single-parent families: Andrew Fleetwood, 36, and his son Bradley, four, and Laverne Hunt, 43, and her two daughters Isabella, ten, and Libby, eight.
The arrangement was Maria's idea and she believes she's foun...See the full content of this document
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