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Morning Extra - Should mums stay at home?

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The number of stay-at-home parents has fallen by a fifth to its lowest level in 15 years, a YouGov poll has found. Many of the adults surveyed cited the rising cost of living as the main reason for returning to work. Is it acceptable that less than one in eight women with children now stay at home, especially when poll findings suggest the majority of them would prefer to stay at home? Plus, Should we allow human-animal hybrid embryos? MPs have voted to allow controversial plans to update human embryology laws to continue to their next Parliamentary stage, despite deep splits among MPs. But the government says its overall potential to speed up research into treating conditions like Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's means it must be passed. Do the ends justify the means? Or is it wrong to play with the basic building blocks of human life? Graham Stewart takes your calls, texts and emails.