They also want to make sure their children are taken good care of, in the event the parents die while the children are minors.

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They also want Gypsy history to be taught to all children in countries with large Gypsy minorities.

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There are also suggestions that parents might not want their children to feel stigmatised by being identified as coming from a low-income family.

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Parents increasingly recognise that their youngsters have digital expertise they lack but want to tap, and also that their best defence against their children falling foul of the dark side of the internet, such as online sexual predators, is to win their children's trust through honest conversation.

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Some grandparents also face a deeply painful choice: whether to fight for custody when the parents want their children back but still seem unfit.

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However, Mrs French said she was also "quite struck" that today's young men were "very caring and do want to have children and do have an affinity with children".

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She and other committee members said they wanted to find the right place for the school while also showing sensitivity to families who said they don't want to return there and those who wanted their children to return as soon as possible.

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