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[quote=Anonymous]OP, this is a very loaded topic, a basket case of topics really.  And I am sure this has been discussed ad naseum on every forum from all sorts of perspectives: role of women in society and family, feminism, capitalism and family, etc.

The concept of daycare is not new to modern times, it’s been around since the dawn of human society.  Kids were left with family members or other mothers when mothers needed to do some tasks that didn’t allow them to take care of them.  Most other times kids just grew up underfoot doing their thing while mothers worked at household related tasks and other jobs they had.  Women were not just sitting at home and singing songs and doing crafts with their kids dotting on them 100% of their waking time.  And older kids would often look after little ones and help with the household. Wealthy women since the dawn of days used to outsource some or a lot of the childcare to free their time for whatever they desired to do.

I don’t see how it’s different now except the parenting has become a competitive sport and expectations are sky high.  When I grew up most kids didn’t read until they learned in elementary school, this didn’t affect their ability to become intelligent educated people later on, so no mother would ever obsess about staying home to lay a foundation to her child’s intellectual future.  The ones who stayed home did it for other reasons, they wanted to be stay home mothers, they enjoyed it or they simply could not find jobs to justify the cost of daycare.

Also, OP, some women just don’t want to be SAHMs even if financially the family could afford to live on one income.  They are happier when someone else is taking care of kids or household.  Does this make it wrong?  Again, it’s a loaded topic, but you asked for it. 
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