Sentences with phrase «wife works long hours»

His wife works long hours at a shelter for survivors of domestic violence.

Median family income has risen only about 0.5 percent per year - and as far as we can tell from somewhat unreliable data, just about all of that increase was due to wives working longer hours, with little or no gain in real wages.

The driver's wife worked long hours and was gone as much as 12 hours at a time, leaving Lacey home alone.

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Many young working wives feel that the long hours they are away from home cause loneliness and frustration in their spouses — much the same kind of experience they themselves had as housewives.

Who's to blame for Mary's anxieties and loneliness — her absent husband or the capitalist, consumerist forces that define American society which requires husbands to work long hours and wives to give up their dreams and ambitions to keep house?

Newly 40, Joe juggles long hours working in a boiler room, an ongoing custody battle, his wife's chronic illness, and the demands of raising four girls.

My wife and I both work long hours and we have our kids in about every sport under the sun.

If the family is a traditional family — father working long hours as the breadwinner and wife having given up work or working part - time after the birth of children — the answer will be for the children to spend more time with their mother.

«It is unfair to expect the husband to continue working long hours in demanding employment and not expect the wife to realise her earning potential as soon as is reasonably practicable.»

I work very long hours in the city to support two households, since my future ex wife just dabbles in real estate and has more than a «flexible schedule».

I work about twelve hours a day, and I love it, but as my wife does not have to work it's frustrating to come home after a long day and be asked to cook dinner or go get takeout.

I tend to work long hours, sacrificing sleep and often personal time, rather than sacrificing time with my wife and kids.