No, I do not think that the mother should work outside the home.
My husband was not a high wage earner, so I had to work, the kids are all in their 50’s and we all admit that they missed a lot of the things they could have been involved in.
Keep in mind that both of us came home after work and stayed sober, LOL, we even went to Church once in a while and God was very much in our world.
If you want to know the dangers of having kids today, and it is not just in San Diego, as pick any state and go read the gang news and drive by shootings, killings and drugs news.
San Diego was my home for almost 30 years, so when I found the Police scanner for there on the internet, I started listening.
It has helped me to understand what I had guessed, as the gangs are coming into our small town, and I already knew that there were over 500 gangs in Las Vegas, 2 years ago, according to the Las Vegas Sheriff.
http://www.scansandiego.net/cgi-bin/index.pl
I wanted my kids to have more than I started with, as a sharecroppers daughter in Texas, living in a clapboard shack and working as soon as I could do something useful.
They did not really benefit from all that running water and electric............LOL, I wish now they had needed to fight a little harder to survive.
I will agree, that at todays prices, I do not see how any one person can support a home, working one job...