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  I have mixed feelings on this subject simply because when I was young the accepted thing was a woman gave up work to look after her children often until they went to secondary school. We went without what now seems to be the norm, a car, sometimes a second car, foreign holidays and as well as a career.
  
  If I was running a small business I would not employ a woman who was likely to have children because of the cost and disruption.
  
  Getting back to maternity pay some members of my family would have been in real financial trouble without it.
  
  Perhaps we should make being a mother for the first few years of a child's life much more important than having a paid job and spending most of your pay on child care.

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