low-income parents
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parent
noun[C]
uk/ˈpeə.rənt/us/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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A more politically feasible voucher plan is a targeted plan where only low-income parents qualify for the voucher.
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Future work would also benefit from examination of parenting beliefs about language development held by subgroups of low-income parents who complete such inventories about their child's language skills.
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They will regard what is said by low-income parents and their children alike as expressions of false pride.
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It will be a heavy imposition on low-income parents and others.
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Whatever help is given, if only private child care costing £70 a week is involved, it will still be too expensive for low-income parents to use.
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Many of those programmes place financial pressures on low-income parents.
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It has been said that students with low-income parents are worse off than their counterparts.
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This will remove one of the major stumbling blocks in enabling low-income parents to be better off in work and thus to reduce dependency on benefits.
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But these may be children of low-income parents, non-musical parents, who would not dream of providing such tuition for their children, and who could not afford it anyway.
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This may seem a sweeping generalisation, but while, high-income parents have the money and low-income parents have the time, neither group enjoys the quality of life that we expect today.
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It goes to daycares and reaches 1,200 low-income parents a year.
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