Raising Heirs: Teaching Wealthy Kids About Money
Wealthy families spend a fortune teaching heirs to budget. The research says the variable that actually matters is when you tell them what exists — and most families wait until the mid-twenties.
Dating, marriage, divorce, children, inheritance, generational wealth, dynasties, IVF, royals, pets.
Wealthy families spend a fortune teaching heirs to budget. The research says the variable that actually matters is when you tell them what exists — and most families wait until the mid-twenties.
Title and money came apart centuries ago. How royal families, broke earls, and Gulf monarchies actually fund themselves in 2026 — and what a lordship really costs.
Fertility money doesn’t buy a better baby — it buys more attempts. Inside IVF, egg freezing, and surrogacy for the wealthy, and what each really costs.
Most fortunes vanish within three generations. The families that don’t — Waltons, Rockefellers, Murdochs — built machinery to turn money into lasting power.
Top boarding schools cost $70,000 a year in the US and over $200,000 in Switzerland. Here’s who actually goes, what it really buys, and what families get wrong.
About 90% of family wealth is gone by the third generation. Inside the trusts, governance, and heir prep that separate the dynasties that last from those that don’t.
How wealth actually moves between generations in 2026 — the $15M exemption, the step-up in basis, lifetime gifts, dynasty trusts, and the talk-to-the-heirs problem.
About 49% of billionaire marriages end in divorce. What that statistic hides — and why MacKenzie Scott took 25% of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon stake, not the 50% Washington law would have allowed.