Exactly. Private or homeschool. I know a single working mom who did it by coordinating with other moms and taking night shifts. It can be done. Such a sad and needless tragedy 😞
There was a time when though it meant less money for many things, mom’s stayed home to take care of the kids and be there for them.
For four years after after WWII, when my Air Force dad was assigned overseas or where there was no housing for us, my mom was essentially a “single mom”, in an “affordable” home sixty miles from anyone in her family, with six little kids - the youngest from 1-4 and the oldest from 7-11. She did not work as taking care of us and our home was more than enough for her to manage. I think there were many WWII and post-WWII mom’s like her. At the time my dad’s Warrant Officer Air Force pay was all of $334 a month. We did not know we were poor. Us six older kids remember that period very fondly. We how that feeling to our mom, for how she handled everything.