“Do parents hang around for a day or two after orientation in case their kids need something?” one poster, mrscollege, asked.

一个叫mrscollege发帖人问：“开学后有家长在校园附近逗留一两天，以防孩子有需要么？”

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Turns out parents get a bulk discount: people with only one child spend 25% more per child than families with two, and by the time you have three or more, you are spending 22% less on each one.

而且原来作父母还有“批发价”：只有一个孩子的家庭比有两个孩子的平均多花25%，到你有三个或更多的时候，你每个少花22%。

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Albatrosses breed once every one or two years. While rearing youngsters, parents undergo journeys of thousands of miles to find food.

信天翁每一或二年繁殖一次，为了喂养孩子，他们跋涉数千英里去觅食。

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C. for her essays "The Mommy Tax" and "The Joy of Flex, " which addressed the needs of the "juggler family, " or the household where two parents are working and no one is at home full-time.

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The children were examined at age one, two, four and 10, when parents were also asked about allergy problems or asthma symptoms.

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There are even one or two - such as giving the Bank of England independence, cutting benefits to the disabled and single parents - that Tory governments probably would not have dared introduce.

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