In the name of national economy, we are going to starve the bairns and break the hearts of the women.
He is driven on because he wants to make a wage sufficient to keep his wife and bairns in decency.
We know about the brain drain and the brawn drain; now there is a "bairn drain".
But when we come to legislation we become impersonal, and therefore very often impervious to the real needs of the bairns.
Let his wife have a bairn, and she cannot get maternity benefit.
If those bairns were in hospital, they could be costing the taxpayer about £200 a week for professional care.
Men were fighting the machine for their livelihoods and for their bairns' bread.
It is a matter causing grave thought that so many bairns every morning go to our schools underfed and badly clothed.
