Quote from: RE on Oct 22, 2024, 08:40 PMI definitely agree that the biggest factor is the cost and overall economics that forces women to work full time jobs in order for most couples to earn enough just to pay the rent. Both parents with full time employment does not generally leave enough time to do all the tasks involved in raising a child. Day care ends up eating away all the money, and who drives the older kids to activities? Latchkey kids who raise themselves end up getting in trouble and hanging out with a bad crowd.
RE
Good thing folks can decide early to be a nuclear family to not build up expenses requiring two incomes. Sort of like fire-fuel-charge...some people know how basic things like an internal combustion engine work and can plan get it started when it doesn't want to, and others have not a clue how to generate real world outcomes because they think knowing the theory is enough and don't know dick about practical applications?
Of course some can do both. :)