My husband is an accountant. According to him, most families with both parents working actually PAY to work. They LOSE money.
Take away the day care costs, the extra clothes, lunches, cars, etc., and the family would have twice as much extra cash. Add in the fact that their tax bracket would change, and their tax burden would go way down.
The belief that two people have to work to get by is a fallacy. All it does is bring in more money for the politicians to buy votes, and the liberal teachers union gets control over the minds of their children.
Check your budget, remove all working expenses from one spouse, change the tax bracket, and you'll see how millions of moms have been deceived. They're getting royally screwed. They're now working two jobs - employee and mother - and getting nothing in return. In fact, they're getting robbed of their money and their children!
I guess the ones I know are different.