I can understand why you say this. The squeeze does indeed come on families in that bracket and I know how crippling it was for me to pay the whole range of fees buttociated with a child's attending a university in another city and staying at a residential college. On top of which, *she* has been paying off hecs for years afterwards. Our family has been hit twice. And that's only one child - there were more still coming at that time.
Even so, we like many other families in the situation you describe, *did* manage to finance our daughters' education, though we suffered significant financial hardship on the way there. Things that others in a similar income bracket took for granted we couldn't provide. Perhaps there are some with more children and less income who found it intolerable, but generally speaking, there were ways to manage it. It hurt, but we made it. At the bottom end, though, there is greater hardship for families and single parents and less likelihood that they can afford to take the risk to invest in a uni education for one or more of their children or themselves. I don't have figures for this but I do know cases.
Rifty -- Academic and Computing Help
