Sentence examples for main breadwinners for from inspiring English sources

All the victims were the main breadwinners for their families.

The ANC has also established Africa's largest welfare state, most importantly through the provision of old-age pensions, which have transformed black grandmothers into the main breadwinners for many rural families.All this was done without printing money.

This could also ease the burden on men, congruent with dominant masculinity roles, to be the sole financial provider or main breadwinners for their female partners in the context of severe unemployment (Walker 2005).

But Trujillo was the main breadwinner for the family until she was deported.

For some men, the pressure to be the main breadwinner, for positive and negative reasons (such as unemployment), is easing.

At the age of 16 he was forced to become the main breadwinner for his parents and three younger siblings after his father's business collasped.

Divorce would be banned – as one in three mothers will at some point find themselves separated and left as the main breadwinner for their children.

Mr. Jawed was the main breadwinner for his wife, three children and extended family, and was known in his neighborhood for the collection of 500 audiotapes he would break out for weddings or parties.

Triggs highlighted the case of an elderly woman helped by the pilot program, who was the main breadwinner for her family and who had been married to her partner for 25 years when she had a massive stroke.

From the ages of 13 to 20, he wrote in his memoir, he was the main breadwinner for 6 to 13 people, most of them in his mother's family.

One woman, Nyo Sun, knelt on the ground and lifted the skirt of the tent serving as a temporary morgue, reaching in to touch the foot of her 19-year-old daughter, Chanda, a garment factory worker who had been the main breadwinner for her rural family.