Wadsworth had first inquired, by pointing to his fee scale, if the collector of customs wished for a portrait of the entire family, matching portraits of himself and his wife, or a joint portrait, with perhaps miniatures of the children.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

Men with children tend to view unemployment as more a defeat than women with children, Leahy said, perhaps because women might be more likely to view a lack of a job as a chance to spend more time with family.

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She had to make friends with the country children, and perhaps explain some things to the town children who had been her friends the year before, but if she had any difficulty with that I never heard about it.

NEWYORKER: Gravel

He will acknowledge, too, their fears for the future, the doubts that perhaps their children may be less well off than them, with rising tuition fees, unaffordable house prices, and few jobs.

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Statistics are unreliable, but perhaps 200m rural migrants are working in urban areas, with some 20m children.

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She also wants to explore the impact of a pregnant mother who uses "baby-talk" rather than adult language, perhaps because the mother has other young children and is using modified speech to communicate with them.

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