BBC Money Box Summer Series: Money and Relationships

BenCarter

BBC Radio 4’s Money Box programme is making a series which will examine the financial and emotional dimensions to the most important decisions we make in our lives: choosing a career; buying a home; having children; planning for retirement. The series will attempt to disentangle the often irrational aspects to what are often assumed to be rational, economic decisions.

We’d love to hear from people who’d be willing to talk frankly about the following –

• Graduates living at home with parents. What are the financial and emotional consequences of this? We’d like to hear about lack of independence, status, privacy, resentment etc. We would need to hear from parents AND child/children.

• Teenagers who don’t want to go to University being pushed into doing so by parents. We’d like to hear why children don’t want to go and why their parents think that they should.

• A couple who want to buy their own home before the arrival of their first child. But buying unaided is impossible, renting is unattractively insecure. Why is renting considered an inferior and less astute option to buying?

• A couple debating whether it’s financially worth one of them going back to work after the birth of their child.

• An older couple trying to decide whether to sell the family home and move to residential care.

If you’re interested in talking to me please email ben.carter@bbc.co.uk. I’d be very happy to have a background chat initially with no obligation to doing a recorded interview.

Best wishes,

Ben Carter

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