Applicable only to dual income families:
From a middle aged woman whose husband quit his day job to become a stay at home dad before it was common (it worked out beautifully). I don’t agree with this concept. While I do believe that children fare better when their parents raise them, I also believe that it works best when it is done in the home. A child requires real attention just as a job does, you can’t do both well for days/weeks/months on end. My opinion is that this is being pushed because parents do not want to sacrifice — they want the career, the home, the vacations, the lovely things that money can buy… all of which take a big hit if there is only one income. Those lovely things become meaningless with time — your children will not.