breadwinner

“He is the sole breadwinner and they have a young baby,” she said.

She said her father is the family’s “breadwinner,” and without his paycheck, there are “hard times coming” for her and her three brothers.

"This girl is actually the breadwinner of the family. She's taking all her siblings to school and nobody talks about it as a bad thing any more," he says.

She was the primary breadwinner, but now her husband, who works for the Postal Service, provides the only income.

He complains that men are criticised for wanting to be the breadwinner and support a stay-at-home wife.