10-16-2016, 12:30 PM
(10-15-2016, 05:55 PM)Dan Wrote: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...ign=buffer
Quote:In nearly half of two-parent households in the U.S. today, children are raised by parents who both work full time. Yet most Americans say that children with two parents are better off when one of them stays home to tend to the family, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
The survey, conducted June 7-July 5 among 4,602 adults on Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel, found that 59% of U.S. adults believe that children with two parents are better off when a parent stays home, while about four-in-ten (39%) say children are just as well off when their parents work outside the home...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...ign=buffer
When I see polls like that, I always wonder how many of the participants have no children and are thus voicing an uninformed opinion.
I am not a big fan of day care - in which category I place public schools - but grandparents and other forms of in home child care can be pretty good, in my opinion. A stay at home parent might be even better, all other things being equal, but giving up one income means that other things are decidedly not equal.