"I am not prepared, as a taxpayer, to subsidise families to stay at home and look after their children. We have to make sacrifices when our children are younger" - Margaret Morrissey, National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, rejects calls for extra benefits for parents who decide to stay at home and look after their children
"Every parent will want to ensure their children are kept safe but children cannot live out their lives within the shadows of the cul-de-sac, never able to venture farther away from home" - Phillip Darnton, chairman of Cycling England, after a survey found that 81 per cent of parents restrict children to cycling around just their own street.
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