It is also giving parents much greater flexibility in their working life, where previously they often had none, or indeed little incentive to work at all.
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That doesn't mean it's easy, of course: Even swimmers who are proficient enough in all the strokes to compete in the medley often shine at none of them alone.
Too often, directors have none of their own money at stake, and look to take on directorships in order to supplement their own income.
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Indeed, despite often hefty rewards, none of the other eight on a 2008 Forbes list of the world's most wanted has been caught.
And if they stand firm, which they quite often fail to do, none of it may become law.
The Tories won spectacular swings in the south of England, and often meagre ones, or none at all, elsewhere.
Unfortunately, communicating with public investors is often hard to do, none the least because public-firm managers are not allowed to talk to investors privately.
He also mentions other multiple winners, though none have won as often as Ginther.
We're a nosy bunch, often asking questions others think are none of our business.
When I ask senior Republicans to pick their favourite candidate, more often than not they say "none of the above".
Indeed, family loans are often made and forgiven informally, with the IRS none the wiser.
People who profess no faith affiliation -- often called "nones, " as in "none of the above" -- now form nearly 23% percent of the country's adult population, according to the Pew study.
It is to the credit of the large Sunday crowd that they patiently absorbed the impressive resistance, with none of the tiresome Mexican waves that often appear in quiet periods.
But none of this comes without a fight, often led by the Catholic Church.
Generalists are often derided as a jack of all trades, master of none, yet their broad thinking and diverse interests enable the integration of ideas that leads to true breakthroughs.
The wine in question had none of the off-notes or unusual tastes one often associates with new wine regions.
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None have ever been seen alive, and the animal often features in maritime legends and fables, including Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.
The problems we face as a society can often seem daunting and intractable, and in this country, perhaps none more than the health of our citizens.
They are a curious breed: trivia experts, steeped in popular culture (helpful for pun headlines, none of which Google gets), usually voracious readers, often unappreciated.
Recruiting experts say online job boards in China often attract a glut of unqualified candidates for well-known companies and none for smaller firms, while there are simply too many headhunters with varying degrees of credibility, making the market chaotic.
Directors often served on the boards of a dozen or more companies, and subjected none of them to proper scrutiny.
These customers often know the staff in their local branch by name, and will be none too pleased if Mr McColl sends them packing.
But of course, none of this has stopped the trust companies from marketing them, often with little or no disclosure of these seemingly glaring defects.
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Often we are forced to weigh up multiple factors, assess multiple probabilities, none of which we can ever be 100% sure about, and then somehow reach a decision that we can reconcile ourselves with, for better or worse.
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Factor-in the latest opinion polls suggesting a further turning-away from from the three biggest parties and you can see why UKIP and the Greens are being touted as the 'None of the Above' parties: the Liberal Democrats, so often beneficiaries of protest votes in the past, are now a party of government, so definitely 'One of the Above'!
None of these alternatives appeal to farmers as much as SAWS. British workers are often unreliable: many participants in a trial scheme for the local unemployed in Angus, Scotland, quit after a week, complaining that berry-picking was not for them.
Tech industry is often winner-take-all, and if you are not the one, you are the none.
And this being the only ship on the route, none of the ports were swamped with thousands of other cruise passengers arriving for the day, which is often the case in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Alaska.
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