His mother brought up three children on a pittance she earned as a schoolteacher.

ECONOMIST: Nathan Pusey

His mother, Alice, brought up her three children in a house filled with biographies of famous trade unionists.

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He and his wife (a commoner whom he met playing tennis) brought up their three children as a close family.

ECONOMIST: Elizabeth Vining

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.

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