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Should you go back to work when your child goes to school?

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Should you go back to work when your child goes to school?

3,000 lone parents in Kent have received letters telling them to start looking for work because their children are now at school.

Single Mums and Dads used to be entitled to income support until their youngest child reached the age of 16, then it was seven, now it has come down to five. Do you approve?

Did you go back to work when your youngest started school - or perhaps before? Are you a stay at home Mum or Dad? What do you do all day?

Is it difficult to get back into the work market after five or more years off looking after children? How many jobs are there where you can work just school hours in term time. Is it important to you to be able to drop your child at school and pick them up again?

Do you work but feel guilty that someone else takes your child to school or that they have to go to an after school club?

Are working parents a better role model for children than stay at home parents?

Is there any justification for any parent to stay at home on benefits when all their children are at school?

Should the only stay-at-home Mums and Dads be the ones rich enough to pay their own way?

MPs are voting on assisted suicide later in the Commons - for the first time since 1997.

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We speak to Chris Larner who took his ex-wife to Dignitas and has since written a play about it.

We hear your views and stories.

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  • Tue 27 Mar 2012 09:00