Counting the cost. (Families).In an article called `Foregone fore·gone v. Past participle of forego1. adj. Having gone before; previous. Usage Note: The word foregone has recently developed a new meaning as a truncation of the phrase Earnings from Child Rearing: Changes between 1986 and 1997', Matthew Matthew one of the twelve disciples. [N.T.: Matthew] See : Evangelism Gray and Bruce Chapman Bruce K. Chapman (born 1940) is the director and founder of the Discovery Institute, an American conservative think tank, with links to the religious right.[1][2] He was previously a journalist, a Republican Party politician and a diplomat. estimated that an Australian Australian pertaining to or originating in Australia. Australian bat lyssavirus disease see Australian bat lyssavirus disease. Australian cattle dog a medium-sized, compact working dog used for control of cattle. woman with a secondary education will forgo after-tax income worth $162,474 over her lifetime once she has a child. Loss of earnings through having a second child will be less: only $11,515. A third child comes in at $14,788. In percentage terms, women with one child are estimated to earn only 63% of their pre-child earning potential. The article was published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies in the Autumn 2001 issue of its journal Family Matters (Canberra Times, 15/5/01, p.2). * A separate research paper in Family Matters, `Men's and Women's Reasons for Not Having Children', reported a survey finding that up to 7% of 25-50-year-olds in Australia do not intend to have children. Three practical reasons were offered: age, the lack of a partner or secure relationship, and the fact that a partner had children from a previous relationship. But among respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. to the survey almost one in five of those not planning on parenthood cited the simple fact that they did not like children. The authors of the report were Ruth Weston and Lixia Qu (Canberra Times, 15/5/01, p.2). |
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