But quitting work to look after the children can mean financial disaster.
It still felt right that the husband should go out to work and the wife should run the house and look after the children.
In the past communities came together to look after the children if their parents were not available - so why not have childcare collectives put together by volunteers?
Her husband has a donkey and a small souvenir stall in Petra, so she stays at home to look after the children, the 20 goats and a small garden sown with bamboo, apricots and grapes.
The report said that Mrs A was forced to give up work to look after the children and admitted she was was "struggling to cope" with them, while also caring for her ill husband and her elderly mother.
And I think that sharing the responsibility from the start when it comes to children and household shores will make sure that it's not only the woman's responsibility to look after the home and children when the children are growing up either.
At least 200 new foster families are needed across Northern Ireland this year to look after the record numbers of children in care, figures show.
Singapore Airlines offers up to 14 days a year for mothers who need time off to look after sick children under the age of 6.
The group was set up in response to the Williamson Report, published in 2008, into child protection services, which recommended a better resourced independent service should be set up to look after children on the Child Protection Register.
Parents look after their children, with a view to helping them do at least as well as they themselves have done, and grown-up children look after their parents, in the hope that their children will do the same for them one day.
"The staff in the activity centre are absolutely fantastic and cannot do enough for the children they look after, play with and to whom they help to provide reassurance, " she said.
Laurent Fabius, who ran against her, publicly asked who would look after her children if she went for the presidency.
Local social services say the parents failed to look after their children.
In its report "Relative Value", Citizens Advice Scotland said a third of the parents who cannot look after their children struggle because of addiction issues.
Attempts to make nurseries more affordable by letting staff look after more children at a time may reduce the quality of care, campaigners have said.
Other families, particularly in the countryside, cannot afford to look after their children, who are sent to relations.
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Lorna says while she would like to work full time, she has three children to look after so depends on the state subsidies to supplement her low-paying, part-time job in the borough's school kitchens.
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Anand Shukla, from national childcare charity Daycare Trust, said: "No matter how well qualified the members of staff, there are practical considerations when you increase the number of children that they have to look after, " he said.
With budgets squeezed, the local authorities whose responsibility it is to look after children in need are not always quick to do so, or to make sure that housing officers, family doctors and others know they are supposed to as well.
Now, for most families, that freedom requires a job that pays the bills, covers your mortgage, helps you look after your children.
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Poorer children frequently have no one to look after them in the long hours between the end of the school day and the end of the average working day.
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Earlier this year the ministers announced plans to allow nurseries and childminders to look after more children, but only if there is a qualified graduate present.
In many ways it is closer to America, where the government stingily but even-handedly pays neither parent to look after children.
"The public needs to be aware of the discrimination that is shown towards domestic helpers and yet we look after their children, we cook, we clean, " Ms Lestari added.
The term orphan includes children who have parents who can't look after them.
And we are invited to look even further ahead: these, after all, are the reproving voices of our swindled children.
Stay-at-home parents who choose to look after their children instead of going to work are being "unfairly" penalised, the Bishop of Exeter has said.
When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).
The book was inspired by the Eden Project, which is all about teaching children how we need to look after plants and how plants can look after us.
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