I don't agree with the no day-care post. It's not that easy to just have the wife up and quit her job to stay home. Most peaple were not debt free when they had kids and only have a cell phone and a new car to pay for. We both make good money and we would be giving up alot more than our phones if she quit. To start our house, with the cost of a house here how many peaple could pay a 1100-2000$ morgage on there own. No more family vacations for another thing. My kids are 6&7 and we pay full fare for them to be on a plane. Not Cheap. As i was born in 1970 i to fall into alot of the things mentioned in the original post and it was great times. Both parents smoking in the car with the windows up in the middle of winter, no seat belts. (still couphing up smoke from those days). I also had the luxary of having a stay at home mom. Would i like to tell my wife to just up and quit. Hell ya, but no way it can happen. Wouldn't be able to pay for kids sports, field trips, none of it. We have to pay 250$ each kid just to have them stay at school for lunch. JEEEZuz, at there desk no less. no microwave, nothin, jsut for supervision. I'm sure my folks didn't have that.
Maybe if the govermant would help out with daycare it would be possible for her to work alot less.
I'm not sure how you can critisize peaple for using daycare when you have no kids. Mine are there 2-3 hours a day and i don't think it is hurting them. She only has 5 kids there and they are not allowed to watch TV. We use daycare to allow both of us to work so that our kids can get the best things in life. You went to daycare, how bad did you turn out?