She tells me her husband is ill, she has six children and no breadwinner.
And the family model of a lone male breadwinner set a broad daily framework.
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Dr. Slaughter believes that men are the key to helping women achieve breadwinner and caregiver status.
Bruce's wife is sick and unable to work, leaving him as the sole breadwinner.
Rob Sandler revealed he felt similar worries as the sole breadwinner of the family.
Sorrow aside, the illness and death of a breadwinner costs a family most of its income.
According to the central bank, 22% of families are in effect without a breadwinner.
They are their husband's "helpmeet", designed to support him as head of the household and primary breadwinner.
As well, giving mothers (often the rural breadwinner) more say over slicing the bread will help kids.
Eighteen-year-old Mashadi is typical: Her father died four years ago, leaving her mother as the sole breadwinner.
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It was Leo who was the major breadwinner as a successful district manager at a grocery store.
Labour councillor Sir Albert Bore said the job cuts would "lead to families in Birmingham losing their breadwinner".
Of those 11 million, 40% say they'd have trouble paying everyday bills if the breadwinner were to die today.
This somewhat also implies that passionate careerists oftentimes cannot make a good enough living to be the main breadwinner.
I've been the significant breadwinner in my household for the last six years.
In 2008, his father, the chief breadwinner for the undocumented family, began having dizzy spells and other mysterious symptoms.
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He occasionally traded his "breadwinner"--the cart used to haul cans from the trash dump to the scrap dealer--for alcohol.
Of course, finding that big-time breadwinner is not as easy as it sounds.
In former West Germany the traditional family model of the male breadwinner with a home-oriented wife was still dominant.
Since 2000, as many households depend on a single mother as the breadwinner as depend on a traditional male breadwinner.
The study participants saw themselves as aspiring to share equally in caregiving, in addition to their more traditional role as breadwinner.
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The dominance of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) was solidified in an era of single income households where the breadwinner rarely changed jobs.
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Though we had a short setback with Lori changing jobs and me being the sole breadwinner, that is now solved with her new job.
By contrast, in modern America there have been a number of news stories of late highlighting the rise of the female breadwinner.
When husbands retire before their wives do, they may find themselves in an unfamiliar role: no longer the breadwinner, instead the househusband.
Though Glassman has a lucrative medical practice, Principal was the major breadwinner thanks to her super-successful Principal Secret skincare line, peddled on QVC.
Moreover, 85% of these workers are women, and each is the sole breadwinner for her household, supporting between 4 and 8 family members.
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In a family where the husband is the main breadwinner, working from home can increase a wife's self-worth -- both psychologically and literally.
As a single professional woman, the social norm that a husband should be the primary breadwinner for a family presents some real concerns.
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As our history of male-as-sole-breadwinner fades as downsizing and outsourcing burgeon, both sexes will need to be prepared to raise money and raise children.
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