| If something bad had happened to my father I would be the sole breadwinner for the family. |
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| Traditionally, we have based our support for families around the male breadwinner model. |
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| The second mistake is insuring the family's breadwinner and forgetting to insure a non-working partner, such as a housewife or house husband. |
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| Taking on a mortgage and a child when the remaining breadwinner is likely to be retrenched at any moment is a large risk. |
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| Mom is now saddled with the additional burdens of becoming the primary breadwinner and household repairman. |
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| Betting each other that it is easier to be a breadwinner than a bread baker, the couples trade places for a day. |
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| Her boss often harassed her and was aware that, as the sole breadwinner of her four-member family, she was unlikely to protest. |
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| Attention was also turned to the association of fatherhood with notions of provider and breadwinner. |
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| Our culture no longer values the household supported by a sole breadwinner. |
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| The laborer unsuccessfully pleaded with the company to reconsider, noting that he was the main breadwinner in his otherwise impoverished family. |
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| Mum, being divorced, was the only breadwinner in the home and worked as the manageress of the local tea-room. |
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| He was the sole breadwinner for his family, especially since both of his parents died several years ago. |
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| The loss of a parent, sometimes of both, leads to the loss of the breadwinner, who is consequently replaced by the oldest child of the family. |
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| He was a father of four children and the sole breadwinner in the family. |
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| For her, the vehicle for the transformation of the deprived woman into an independent individual and in most cases the breadwinner of the family has been teaching. |
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| That is a hangover from the old male breadwinner concept, and is out of step with current social mores, so I am pleased that we are now removing it from our statute book. |
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| Both men and women agreed that to be a man was to be an authority figure, the head of the household and the breadwinner. |
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| This can make a big difference to a household when the main breadwinner is too ill to work. |
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| Women who migrate and remit may become the main breadwinner and so acquire a great level of power within the household. |
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| The Pew survey also gauged opinion on more women becoming the primary breadwinner. |
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| In the vast majority of families, husbands retain their primary role for being the main and stable breadwinner in the family. |
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| Social conservatives complain that for many families, a welfare cheque has replaced the male breadwinner, making him superfluous. |
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| She was the breadwinner of our family so I could not be able to continue with school. |
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| Now that the family's breadwinner has gone, she is only just managing to survive. |
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| However, no pension can provide for eventualities such as fire, a long illness on the part of the breadwinner or other medical expenses. |
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| I think giving a tax cut to the breadwinner does not guarantee that women will get a share of it. |
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| She was the sole breadwinner in the family and it was a tough call. |
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| If this breadwinner becomes unemployed or incapacitated, poverty instantly results. |
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| Even though my dad was the breadwinner, he always had this joke that he changed my diaper once, so she had a lot on her plate. |
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| I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious. |
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| The workforce now skews female, and men have been hit harder by the recession, forcing women into the breadwinner role. |
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| This made it very difficult for women who had suddenly become the primary breadwinner of the family. |
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| It makes sense not just to insure the main breadwinner, but also the person who manages the household. |
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| Women may have special needs, particularly if they are the breadwinner for the family. |
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| Locking up the primary breadwinner can push a family from working-class to impoverished. |
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| The other part of the female breadwinner equation focuses on the steep rise in unwed mothers. |
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| It may also apply to third-country nationals and especially to relatives who are third-country nationals and who are not allowed to accompany the breadwinner when he or she obtains work on the other side of the border. |
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| When presented with work-life conflicts, men were unreticent about choosing work, the report found, because they see their main role as that of breadwinner, even if that's no longer true. |
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| Artificial limbs and other major medical or surgical supplies, provided that the beneficiary or his breadwinner may be required to share in the cost of the supplies received to the extent of one-half. |
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| The historical doctrines of primary breadwinner, tender years, primary caregiver, and best interests of the child favour one parent and do not address the needs of the children. |
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| The Sabbath which was supposed to be a day of rest was the only day available for the breadwinner of the family to go out and hunt game to put food on the family table. |
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| She was collecting the names of families whose breadwinner had been killed or detained by the regime so she could link them with organisations delivering food aid or monthly payments. |
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| While these are modest payments, they nonetheless ensure some stability in household income, which typically declines after the death of a breadwinner. |
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| These data would suggest that many Canadian dual-income families still fit the traditional pattern where men are the primary breadwinner and women's earnings are considered secondary. |
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| Many policies are based on decades-old definitions of a male breadwinner or the idealized nuclear family of mother, father and dependent children. |
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| Despite her age, Geislane is the main breadwinner in her family. |
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| Where men are suffering high levels of unemployment locally, migrating for work and sending money home can offer a way to reclaim their status as household head and breadwinner. |
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| Unless the government steps in to clean up the mess created by the softwood sellout, another 300 families will lose their breadwinner and 1,000 jobs will be lost indirectly. |
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| If a terminally ill person is also the main breadwinner of the family, surviving family members sometimes need help in finding ways to obtain the basic necessities for the family. |
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| It must be possible for a sole breadwinner to feed a family and it must be possible for a woman to decide to have children without that meaning impoverishment. |
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| All too often, it is still based on the male breadwinner model. |
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| These factors have, in some countries, led to a backlash in the transition period, with the promotion of the traditional role model for women within the male breadwinner family. |
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| At age 16 Boole became the breadwinner for his parents and three younger siblings, taking up a junior teaching position in Doncaster at Heigham's School. |
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| It seems there is a new balance between breadwinning and caring within our households and we can no longer assume that the man is the primary breadwinner. |
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