>it's very rare to meet a woman who only desires to stay at home for the duration of a child's life I assume you mean until the child goes to school or perhaps

>it's very rare to meet a woman who only desires to stay at home for the duration of a child's life I assume you mean until the child goes to school or perhaps becomes an adult, and in my experience it's not rare to meet women like that. It certainly was not rare in previous generations, so to the extent that it is rare today, it's due to cultural changes. If women's mental health is suffering because certain elements of society have convinced them they should be working instead of caring for their children, we should just as strongly consider countering those elements. What is very rare in my experience is to meet an older woman who wishes she had spent less time with her children when they were young.