Sure, we could have waited longer and discovered more about ourselves as a unit and therefore been better parents.
Some 47% of the boys agreed that married couples made better parents than unmarried couples, compared with 32% of girls.
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When it comes to children, where opinion can often be a bit more traditional, only 28% said they believe married couples make better parents.
He also argued the scale of planning involved in providing a child for gay couples through donor insemination and surrogacy methods often makes them better parents than their heterosexual counterparts.
He turns up statistics showing that most women, employed or not, spend more time caring for their young children now than they used to, and suggests that most people have become better parents (doing more for their own children) but worse citizens (doing less for others).
If it improves, it'll be because of the better communication parents have with their children.
Nor would it be fair to let better off parents take taxpayers' money and top it up with their own resources.
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Parents on the lowest incomes agreed they were more likely to snap at their children (23%) because of money worries compared with better off parents (10%).
The system as a whole responds better to parents' wishes, too: if local authorities try to close a much-loved small rural school, parents simply apply to open their own one.
However, I have come to realize over the years that dealing with just one challenge at a time allows for focus and consistency, and better motivates parents for the next challenge.
Certainly, it is helpful to both men and women to have a more flexible work schedule to better permit parents to help one another out with the important challenges they face when it comes to performing in the workplace while taking care of business at home.
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An ICM poll for the Guardian showed that 44% of parents did not believe that school admissions gave children a fair chance - with the better-off parents mostly likely to be sceptical.
In fact, Brodzinsky's own research finds that adopting parents are a special breed: highly motivated, better educated and better off financially than parents who do not adopt.
But it is clear that they need to be better publicised so that parents wanting to save money for their children are better informed about their options.
While there might be suggestions that children brought up by attentive, nurturing parents are better behaved, this might conflict with the financial necessity for parents to work long hours.
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And, from a strictly utilitarian perspective, things would be even better if the parents kept pumping kids out.
They succeeded: My three brothers and I each own homes and by financial measures have done better than our parents.
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The pilot schemes, which could include controversial plans to charge better-off parents for school bus trips, are scheduled to run until 2011.
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They do take care of their parents better than their husbands do.
Untold numbers went from rags to riches, while the great majority of individuals were able to live better than their parents and grandparents had.
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Bill and I lived better than my parents and his.
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He pledged to make information on schools easily and publically available and said it would allow teachers to drive up performance and help parents better understand how education worked.
Perhaps, she suggests, discussing height and weight in terms of clothing size may help parents better understand if their child is overweight or obese and at risk for serious medical problems as a result.
Second-generation immigrants fare better than their parents.
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By invoking a law passed in 1955 to quell unrest during Algeria's war of independence from France, some argue, the prime minister is sending a message that the children of immigrants will be treated no better than their parents and grandparents.
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Researchers at the Centre for the Economics of Education have used data on earnings, social class and education to distinguish the effects of private schooling from other advantages that students at such schools may enjoy (such as having richer, better-educated parents).
Labour's intention was to ease the pressure on the squeezed middle, and also generate the idea of the British promise, the thinking being the next generation of youngsters should do better than their parents - but there were still a lot of questions around the policy, our correspondent added.
But if children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.
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