where possle, i have to leave my husband to look after him. i work flexible hours, which means that i start in the office at 7:00 in the morning. i leave home at 6:30 so that i can leave work early in order to collect my son and allow my husband to go to work. my son broke his arm at the beginning of the summer, and i had to p p for a child minder. i paid her by the hour for a month. i had to do this because i wasn't using her on a regular basis, and i had to pay her 1,006,000 lira when i earn only 1,003,000 lira, so you can see that there are problems. i always have to take into account my family commitments, especially as my son is an only child, and so i have to organize some sort of games for him or, in any case, arrange for him to be with the children of his own age. this means i have to make special arrangements, as he doesn't have any brothers or sisters. otherwise, he would often have to spend the afternoon on his own. i would have liked and would still like more children because i like children and i believe that the more children the