They enjoyed a greater degree of communication and role-sharing with their spouses, and were more likely to make joint decisions on matters such as birth control and child discipline.

UNESCO: Family Literacy Programmes (FLPs)

Ms Mcdonald said before diagnoses her daughter was thought of as a stubborn child who needed discipline.

BBC: Parents raise concern over mutism

If a child grows up with parents who have work, and have some education, and can be role models, and can teach integrity and responsibility, and discipline and delayed gratification -- all those things give a child the kind of foundation that allows them to say, my future, I can make it what I want.

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