As for childcare, mom A might work 3 days one week and 4 days the following week, mom B might work 3 days one week and 3 days the following week.
The two moms would switch childminding.
If the moms work 10 hours a day, they’d average 35 hours a week.
In an ideal world. Finding another person with conservative values that align is like finding a marital partner—not that easy. Even back in the 80s-90s when I was raising mine, elementary teachers, Sunday School teachers and other parents in the scout troop were wanting to demonstrate condoms on bananas and similar enlightened ideas.
One mother took several of our 8-year-old cub scouts on a "20-minute hike" to see a beaver dam at a mountain campsite to which we had driven for the weekend, and they didn't return for 8 hours, just as the other dads and moms were about to call the state police, our searches having failed. That mother had not followed directions from the man who knew the terrain. They had one soda and one small bag of chips with them for five kids and the know-it-all mom.
Granted, we were living in a city and that's the kind of default liberals who were available, but that's also where the work was. My solution was to move next door to an old-time Catholic Church, where multiple family-oriented grandmothers lived in rowhouses on the adjacent blocks. But today's grandmothers are the pot-smoking blue-haired anti-ICE protesters.