The other replier gives good reasons, but it's worth considering why things have gotten this way. If one parent wasn't working, all the money spent on daycare w

The other replier gives good reasons, but it's worth considering why things have gotten this way. If one parent wasn't working, all the money spent on daycare wouldn't be an issue -- the other parent just takes care of the child. Why do both parents have to work? Because you can't afford a house somewhere where you'd want to raise kids without. Why can't you afford a house without both parents working? Because dual-income households drove up this housing stock to absolute boundary of affordability. This is basically the thesis of Elizabeth Warren's "The Two-Income Trap". See here [1] for a good synopsis. It's a shame that so many of the children of these educated mothers are going to be autistic because of advanced maternal age. Not so good for our future. [1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/28/book-review-the-two-income-trap/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/28/book-review-the-two-inc...