Not to say that stay at home parents can’t expose their children to a great diversity of mentors, but if they are doing that like they should, they really should not get paid much for it because that money goes to the mentoring programs that working parents provide for their children.
Same 8 year old is in chess club, garden club and soccer with a diversity of mentors and with the best of peers. A working parent gets that done almost as easily as I do but is purchasing power productive much more so than I am in the meantime.
Take away the cleaning and my high priced sex, I am near as good of a SAHP as there is. WIth 3 kids, I am worth no more than the 30k including What vegetables I grow for seasonal eating and putting up because I do that on a pretty large scale, more than most working parents could do. The vegetable growing is a very low paying job on an hourly basis so it isn’t much. I do car repairs and take care of 20 acres in a pretty minimal fashion….keep a safe fire zone.
