Since she has two sons by a previous marriage, the family could not argue that Ruslan was the only able-bodied breadwinner.

Two weeks later his older brother Pat, the family's only breadwinner, was stabbed to death by culprits unknown, for reasons obscure.

'This money would have been very useful a year ago after the Teebane massacre because two families lost their only breadwinners.'

You may have a child who's the only breadwinner in his family, falling asleep in class.

In 1992, women's earnings account for 40 percent of family incomes, while every fifth Russian woman is the family's only breadwinner.

They are often their family's only breadwinner, usually divorced or separated, because, they say, most marriages wither in their absence from home.

She was the only breadwinner of the family since her father Aquino died, and only her mother took care of the family.

"Don't expect anything from us this week," she tells Iris, the only breadwinner in the family at the moment.

"I'm a single mom, which means I'm the only breadwinner," she explained.

Khodeza Begum has three surviving children, but none yet old enough to replace her son Zakir, 15, who had been the family's only breadwinner.