Sure, except that’s not always how reality works. My mom and my mother-in-law were both stay at home mothers who got divorced. They have few employment options

Sure, except that’s not always how reality works. My mom and my mother-in-law were both stay at home mothers who got divorced. They have few employment options in the private sector after 20 years of raising children. Turns out the market doesn’t pay much for those skills. Now we have to help support them.