"She was around to help me raise my five children, " said Samantha.

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As a child growing up in the Clinton Park neighborhood in Houston, Texas, my parents were just regular folks trying to raise their five children (sounds like Gov. Sarah Palin).

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She quit in 1983 and moved to San Antonio to raise her two children and needed a source of income when she got divorced five years later.

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Three in five of the over-40s did have children, and talented women who quit work to raise kids are not included in the sample.

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