My business doesn’t make a lot of money, but I do it because what little I earn, at least I have that. And at least I am at home taking care of my children and attending to my husband.
But sometimes children, as the children grow they need many things. They go to school, so more money is needed and I feel like he can’t do this alone. I mean, I feel the need for us both to work, but then I think, who would I leave [the children] with? I don’t have someone to take care of them.
Here in Nicaragua there are many vices, and they are growing up. I worry that if I go work, they will be alone. So I try to choose what’s best for them. And not only for the children, but for all four of us, our needs. That’s what stops me from going to work.
Sometimes I worry a lot because… for example, right now I have not been able to enroll them [in school] because of money. So those are the things that make me sad and I say I want to go to work, I want to go work. Because it’s better to have both of us working. But I don’t want to because I don’t want to leave them alone to possibly go down bad paths.