Sentence examples for breadwinner with from inspiring English sources

It was true that I had never worn the mantle of breadwinner with much grace or confidence.

The threshold is £16,850 for a single person, £25,600 for a lone parent with one child and £36,060 for a single breadwinner with two children.

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All that changed when there was an unexpected and radical change at home and my mother had to find her own way as the primary breadwinner with two teenage daughters.

Polly Toynbee recently wrote that "intentionally or not, a male breadwinner with a dependent woman carer at home is the model on which the cuts are crafted, removing the supports to independence and sending women home".

A family man with a roving eye and a solid breadwinner with unsettling memories of a sports hero's past, Troy is twisted by fiercely contradictory impulses — of love and resentment, gentle judiciousness and brutal irrationality, responsibility and a lust for careless freedom.

Tax policy in the United States currently discourages shared parenting, by providing significant tax benefits to breadwinners with stay-at-home spouses, whether they provide care for children or other family members in need of assistance or not.

Instead, she said, the effort should be considered an economic priority for struggling families, particularly as growing numbers of women become primary breadwinners with layoffs decimating industries dominated by men.

Her husband, Bob, wants to spend more time with their children than his father, a traditional breadwinner, spent with him, and mornings are chaotic as he gets the kids out the door and to child care.

Her family had suffered repeated blows: the death of her father in 1921, when she was 5; the absence of a dependable breadwinner; brushes with poverty as she came of age in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; an illness that prevented her mother from managing by herself.

So, unlike post-war men, contemporary men must therefore also harmonize their traditional breadwinner responsibilities with larger-scale responsibilities -- responsibilities that would normally require some form of rebellious dissent.