Congratulations to clever and successful DDS, but Gally that is so sad. Is there really no way round this? DH and I were having this conversation today about "equal employment rights" for women and how in the early 70's when we had graduated and he had qualified as a CA (I was a teacher) we could actually manage on ONE income - poor mind you, but we had a decent sized house, a car and we coped. Nowadays very very few couples in their 20's can buy a house and manage on one income, unless one is a merchant banker. So have we really progressed all that much? Sometimes I feel we women have won the battle but lost the war.