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In this economy? Maybe not in your income bracket.

• dmoy 3y ago
  In the US at least, it's like 2:1 ratio, maybe 30-35% of families with kids have a stay at home parent. So, less common, but not an incredible outlier.
  • dmoy 3y ago
    What's somewhat interesting is that at both very low and very high income levels, the % of stay-at-home parent is higher. So for people near poverty, or people making top 1%-ish income, it's less than a 2:1 ratio, more like 35-40%. For middle income like $40k-$100k, it's more like 3:1 or 4:1. At no income level is it lower than 20% stay at home parent though, so not too much of an outlier in any case.
• BeetleB 3y ago
  Based on the data on this page[1] on households with kids: 57% have both parents working full time 28% have one parent working full time and the other not working at all. The remaining 16% is one full time, one part time. As another commenter pointed out - while not the majority, it's definitely not an outlier. [1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/comparing-characteristics-and-selected-expenditures-of-dual-and-single-income-households-with-children.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/comparing-characte...