The question “how much is enough?” and its corollary “how much should I give my children?” is one many families ask but very few consider how to go about answering. I’ve gone as far as modelling decades of projected expenditure for a family, and the returns needed to provide for it. To be sure, such a model makes many assumptions, but it’s a starting point and one that does roughly put a family’s financial assets and liabilities in perspective. by David Werdiger