At the end of the day, isnt’ it all about choice? At this point in my life (43 y.o.) I cannot imagine that if I were to find a woman that would want me ;) that I’d find one who would even consider just staying home with the child rearing responsibilities. At the same time, I know there are people that are still living in that paradigm. And good for them. They should have the “choice”. It’s when we take it away that all heck breaks loose!

if you see how man handle stuff (generally), you would not leave a baby and anything fragile in their hands

That is one of the most sexist things I have read in any comment on this blog. I find such an unfounded generalization to be very offencive.

Apparently, you’ve been introduced to the lowest class of man.

“nurturing a child to be a successful person in the future, really holds a priceless value.”

If this property of ‘successful-ness’ is a metric we can measure, then we can put a value on it. But don’t forget to subtract the value of the time of the parent who removed themselves from the workforce, first.

“a homemaker that spends all her efforts to ensure her 3 children to go through university”

And how is she doing this from the home? What resources does she have access to, which would not be better or more efficiently acquired from outside the home?

Our rent was cheaper at the place we lived in the suburb of Surrey than it was in the last house we rented in Lethbridge. Granted other expenses were higher, but we still managed on one income.

We did live on two incomes for a little while, but that was to pay for post secondary education.

But we had no children, so technically, Mary wasn’t a working mum.

I don’t know how anyone can live in Vancouver or Calgary without two incomes.