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Nowadays, in many families both parents need to have jobs. What are some of the problems associated with both parents working, and what are some of the possible solutions? Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words.

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Nowadays, it is true that families often need
both
 the mother and father to
work
 but that
childcare
 can
then
 cost too much. I believe that the difficulties linked to
both
parents
 having jobs are challenging but there are clear solutions to some of them. In
this
 essay, I am going to give some of the difficulties and
suggest base
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suggestions based
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 on my opinion. On the one hand, when
both
 the mother and father are full-time
worked
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working
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 certain problems occur. If the
parents
 need to leave the house early in the morning and get home in the late afternoon or early evening, they may need someone to take care
about
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of
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 their children
to
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at
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 school or at home.
Childcare
 becomes very expensive.
In addition
, if
both
parents
work
, the family will probably need to own two cars, which means spending even more
money
 each year. On the
second
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other
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 hand, there are definitely solutions to some of these problems. Some adults usually go to
work
 with other people, sometimes in a different person's car each day because the
money
 they have
just
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is just
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 enough to take care
their
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of their
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 children.
In addition
, in some poor countries working
parents
 can apply to the government for
money
 to help with
childcare
 so they can go to
work
 and
paying
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pay
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 their income tax without
nervous
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being nervous
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 about their
money
.
To sum up
, there are certainly problems associated with
both
parents
 working, including the cost of
childcare
 and transport.
However
, solutions include car-sharing and government
helped
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help
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. In my own view, the challenges of a
children
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child's
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 mother and father having jobs are difficult but not impossible to have.
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