Children need a nuclear family with a mother and a father and the mother home when the children are home especially during the middle and high school years.
**especially during the middle and high school years.**
This was the time I became most active in my children's school lives; president of the local parents' group at the local middle school. Attending all the high school functions!
My kids, at the time, weren't always happy about me hanging around all the time. But now they thank me for exactly that and knowing what was going on with them during these volatile days of middle and high school.