In many instances, road accidents rob poor families of their breadwinner.

Generally the husband is supposed to be the breadwinner and the head of the family.

General tax deductions are now paid out directly to the dependent partner instead of as under the old system to the breadwinner.

This may be an indication that it is more difficult for single mothers with small children to find a job which allows them to combine their roles as breadwinner and caretaker.

I know a gentleman, married for 25 years, who's longing to hear his wife say, Thank you for being the breadwinner, so I can stay home with the kids, but won't ask.

To give just one example, in the Breadwinner case the State party had amended social security legislation that discriminated against women who were neither breadwinners nor permanently separated from their husbands in relation to their eligibility to receive unemployment benefits.

State social insurance funds are spent on benefits (for temporary disability, pregnancy and childbirth, burial, family allowances, etc.), for loss of a breadwinner, for payment of pensions and unemployment benefits, for sanatorium treatment, for recreation for workers and their family members, for food, etc.

They may not change by much the number of hours worked by the main breadwinner in a family (typically a man), but they do influence the participation of women in the labor force. After all, why work, when your after tax salary barely pays for childcare and household help?

Two main factors influence the extent of poverty among Arabs in Israel large families and low income, which is a function of high unemployment rates low wages and a high proportion of single breadwinner families due in part to the low participation of Arab women in the labor force.13

This means accepting the decision of a son or grandson not to use his hard earned university degree to become the primary breadwinner in his future household. And it means understanding that what a daughter or granddaughter needs may not be a traditional provider, but a partner who makes career sacrifices to enable her to advance hers.