More people are bringing up children single-handedly, or are in families where both parents work.
We can keep one million students learning beyond regular school hours, when parents work and juvenile crime soars.
Last week parliament approved a new benefit to encourage families in which both parents work to have more children.
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Unless your parents work in the field you want to pursue, they are not going to be able to help you most effectively.
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When it was days old, this Congress passed a law to provide and protect health insurance for 11 million American children whose parents work full-time.
Should parents work or look after their own children full time?
When it was days old, this Congress passed a law to provide and protect health insurance for 11 million American children whose parents work full time.
One group from Palos Verdes, California, consists mostly of high-school students, but is not to be underestimated, because many of the students' parents work in the aerospace industry.
But even as parents work to help their kids eat right and exercise at home, we also need to make sure that they have access to healthy meals at school.
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Patel saw his parents work hard to attain their middle class status and focus their attention on helping he and his siblings aspire to the great American Dream of building and owning your own business.
The government has set up a website app to help separating parents work together to minimise the impact of their break up on their children and avoid the courts - ' Sorting Out Separation' - has already been visited by 40, 000 parents.
The proposals aim to help children and make it easier for parents to work or go into education or training.
The Valley used to be an agricultural backwater, where children would rise with their parents and work the fields until dusk.
She insisted there were enough jobs for parents to work an extra eight hours a week to qualify for tax credits.
By my standards, they were rich because six days a week they had a maid who cooked and cleaned for them so both parents could work.
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British children brought up in two-parent families where only one parent works are almost three times more likely to be poor than children with two parents at work.
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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It is complicated for parents to work out how much money they are entitled to, and sudden changes in circumstances (such as one parent losing a job) can mean payments are withdrawn.
Locally, parents can work to massage the culture of a school, and in the city's school-choice environment, they can have more of an ultimate influence on their child's education than in many other cities.
Of the 6.6 million children up to age 19 that receive health insurance through SCHIP, 37% belong to parents who work for businesses with fewer than 100 employees, estimates the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan tax research organization.
The paper steers clear of compelling lone parents to work, but the government plans to prompt more to do so, despite evidence showing that the majority of lone parents prefer, for now, to continue caring for their children.
After two years, my teaching contracts ended, so I said hasta luego to my life on the Iberian Peninsula and moved back in with my parents to work a nine-to-five desk job in Washington DC, dealing with financial reviews, company deadlines, terrible co-workers and fax machines that never worked.
Oddly enough, Hillary Clinton, one of the politicians who has led the criticism of the gaming industry in America, has recently come round to this view. (Perhaps someone gave her a Nintendo Wii.) Last month she emphasised the need for parents to pay more attention to game ratings and called on the industry, retailers and parents to work together.
The burden of enduring a strike then falls on families in which both parents need to work.
My parents and my friends' parents went to work in conditions that were dirty and often unsafe.
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Jobless school-leavers of all grades find themselves worse off than their parents, without work and apparently without a future.
The charity said it found many Jobcentres were failing to help single parents find suitable work or offer the right training.
This will help all children get a sure start in life, help parents balance their work and family life and support local communities.
Due to the economic crisis, parents have to work long hours (if they are lucky enough to have a job), and often, kids are neglected.
There are parents doing shift work, they give the kids money and the kids do what they want, so you get kids out of control.
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