Sentences with phrase «working breadwinner»

Jim's life is upside down: his father is out of work and spends his days on the couch watching TV or flying model planes; his mother is the hard - working breadwinner; his sister Becky has stopped washing her armpits and has a biker boyfriend Jim calls Craterface; and Jim is worried he will be expelled from school due to his less - than - stellar academic performance.

So, who better to pull together a list of what dads want for Father's Day than someone who has been on both sides of the fence — the hard - working breadwinner and the 24/7 stay - at - home parent who's gone through the baby, toddler, little girl and tween years?

Not exact matches

Even though working moms are the sole or primary or breadwinner in 40 percent of American households, they are still also overwhelmingly the ones taking care of, or arranging for the care of, children and the elderly.

The days are gone when family breadwinners could expect to work for one employer throughout their entire career, retire on generous defined benefit pensions provided by that employer, with the comfort of knowing that expenses in their golden years would be securely funded by the deep pockets of government.

This brings to mind the old division in British working - class culture in which there were two models of sharing breadwinner male income.

Another factor in the modern data set we must bring before the model is the mass entry of women into the work force and the erection of social policies that transfer benefits other than through bonds with particular male breadwinners.

Luckily, family helped care for the baby so she could go back to work; at the time, she was the breadwinner while my brother finished school.

If one spouse agrees to work part time, and the other spouse is ok with that and takes on the bulk of the breadwinner role however, this simple decision that was made at the time to benefit the family will have far reaching and potentially life long consequences.

And sometimes the mother IS the breadwinner and / or is doing work that is very important to society as a whole.

Because my then - husband was more established in his career, we decided that I would stay at home and work part time as a freelance writer, and he would continue his full time career and be the breadwinner.

Because should the couple have a divorce years down the road (and there is 50 percent chance this will happen), the breadwinner will be required to pay the part time working spouse a portion of his (her?)

We ended up in a fairly traditional homemaker - breadwinner marriage, although I always worked part time.

Even though there are more ways to be a married couple than ever before, including blended families and families in which the dad stays at home and mom's the breadwinner, we still tend to fall into gendered expectations when we heard the word «wife» — she's responsible for the home and kids, even if she works outside the home full time — and «husband» — isn't he the provider?

There are many legal incentives and it's just plain efficient to specialize in a marriage, and that works against dads, who are often the breadwinners and not the primary caretakers:

If you're the primary breadwinner in your family, with a spouse who takes care of the home, you might not have considered the real cost of replacing the work he or she does.

Nearly half of these working dads also said they regretted agreeing to be the main breadwinner — and handing the bulk of childcare to their partners.

Here's how it works: life insurance typically replaces lost income, so most people insure their primary breadwinner.

Instead there are single parent families, teenage pregnancies and rebellious children not to mention working mothers, stay - at - home dads and homes were both parents are breadwinners.

They report three times the marital contentment of the next happiest group — working - and middle - class families who favor a traditional division of labor and have only one breadwinner.

Women and mothers are a permanent fixture in the workforce — and odds are slim that after a child's birth its mother will stay home full time while its father works as the family's sole breadwinner.

They may be the primary breadwinner in their family or the situation may be that of a single mother pregnancy where the woman has to work to support herself and her yet - to - be-born baby.

This assessment of the changing role of fathers delivers an in - depth portrait of America's working fathers, revealing that today's dads associate being a good father just as much with the role of effective caregiver as the traditional role of «breadwinner.»

But this «supermom syndrome» — in which moms are expected to be the breadwinner and put supper on the table — is leading to increasing health problems, for both stay at home moms, as well as working moms.

That doesn't even include my time / missed wages from not working, and I am the breadwinner in our home (and I ended up still needing to by formula after our donor milk ran out!).

«The vast majority have children or elderly relatives at home, or they have one or two breadwinners who work in low - wage jobs,» he said.

Over the past few months, ministers have removed child benefit from wealthier families with one breadwinner and restricted financial help with child care to those mothers returning to work, yet repeatedly delayed a promise to bring in tax breaks for married couples.»

Mauro's leadership at FPI since 1993 has been essential to its development as a credible and effective advocacy organization that helps to shape the debate over key economic and fiscal issues in ways that ensure a voice for working people — from middle income homeowners struggling with high property tax bills to those families whose breadwinners toil in minimum wage jobs to the involuntarily unemployed.

As a result of the demand on women to perform well in business, to sometimes be the primary breadwinner of the family, and to compete with the go - go - go energy of much of the working world, there has been a tendency for many women to get locked into that kind of «masculine» energy, which can be counter-productive when it comes to getting intimate in the bedroom.

Ukrainian women are able to combine work and family and have to be a breadwinner rather often.

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As it happens, the Ireland - based studio was also responsible for producing world - class Oscar nominees «The Secret of Kells» and «Song of the Sea,» and though Nora Twomey worked on both films, «The Breadwinner» marks her solo directing debut, employing a similarly bold graphic style in its telling («hand - drawn» via a program called TVPaint), augmented by colorful story - within - the - story interludes designed to look like stop - motion.

(In addition to her work travails, Catrin also faces challenges in her personal life as her husband (Jack Huston) grows frustrated because she becomes the main breadwinner.)

«When I was young, Parvana, I knew what peace felt like...» GKids has debuted the full - length theatrical trailer for an animated film titled The Breadwinner, set in the heart of Afghanistan telling the story of a girl who dresses as a boy in order to work and provide for her family.

Once you get past Pixar's «Coco,» it's a weak year for major - studio animated films; that's why the Globes voters will probably give two of their nominations to smaller indie works, «The Breadwinner» (it's executive produced by Angelina Jolie!)

The director on leaving school at 15, working with Angelina Jolie on her first solo feature The Breadwinner, and fighting cancer

In exile, thy often find themselves assuming the role of their husbands as heads of households and breadwinners in addition to parental responsibilities and attending domestic work (22).

But my husband decided how many children to have because he was the breadwinner and working alone.»

A good breadwinner, working three steady jobs and guiding on the side.

A mother tells of raising her son with an occasionally absent father — a common situation in hundreds, if not thousands, of Filipino homes whose breadwinners work abroad.

He was the major breadwinner and I was earning money doing side jobs like sewing, eBay, virtual assistant work and blogging, but we didn't have enough to cover all the bills.

The couple married in 1997 when Shauna was 25, and over the years Dan was always the breadwinner while she mostly worked part - time at odd jobs.

As he family breadwinner and sole income earner, I often have to travel for work.

You don't know what people go through, people get sick and can't work, breadwinners of households pass away and bills aren't paid they way they were.

Danica is in a long - term relationship where she is the main breadwinner and her partner is often out of work.

«Where traditionally these men acted as the breadwinners in a patriarchal system, working and providing for their families, as refugees they are held in limbo, unable to look to the future,» explains Edward.

Although the primary breadwinner was still male and unpaid domestic work continued to be performed by women, the male breadwinner was supplemented by a subordinated women worker.

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.

Recovering the compensation they are entitled to under the law including money victims and families need to pay for hospital bills, rehabilitation expenses, funeral costs and loss of income if an injury victim can not work or a family's breadwinner is killed in an accident;

Loss of income because the injury victim can no longer work due to his or her injury or because a fatal injury victim was his or her family's breadwinner

This disruption is magnified if the victim is the sole breadwinner in the home and can not work for extended periods of time.