[TheSpottedOwl]

If you can do it, either parent should stay home until the kid starts school.

[LibertarianInExile]

Damn, you beat me! And you're dead on about having a parent stay home. Less than that dedication, whether people want to pretend it is 'necessary' or not, is not parenting but fundraising. Your kids deserve both your time and your money. You don't have to be wealthy to provide children with everything they need, though you might not be able to provide them with all they want...which is always way more than they need, anyway.

Still, I'm still looking forward to meeting a family in which the man stays home and is a full-time housekeeper. Women I've met uniformly insist that regardless of their income, they should stay home, not from any logical reason but from a reflexively selfish 'if anyone stays home with the kids it'll be ME' attitude.

Makes me think of that great song of Tom T. Hall's:

He said, "Women think about they-selves, when menfolk ain’t around.
And friends are hard to find, when they discover that you’re down.
I tried it all when I was young and in my natural prime;
Now it’s old dogs, and children, and watermelon wine."

[HeSetUsFree]

Your Tag line -- funny... I'd rather have LIVE rats in my walls than Hillary for President!

[Lizavetta]

If they would have polled the children sitting in day-cares the number would have been six in six.