Yah, us too. The one or one and a half income homeschooling family is a big financial sacrifice in this day and age. Most people make the choice to send their children to institutional schools, whether public or private, and that is sort of how the “system” is designed . . . to have Mom work . . .
Home school was a sacrifice for us too, but I was blessed to have a degree that was fairly flexible - truly a gift from God.
Mom didn't used to work, even with the kids in the state schools.
That was an economic reaction to the 'two worker' family, where inflation made the second check worth less than the first had been, and when two paycheck families became more common, many needed to both work to maintain the same atandard of living.
In the '60s, a new car was 3-5,000, a new house was 30,000, and wages were less than now ($1.65 minimum) , but it was all do-able. Now a car is 25,000, a house 180,000, and base wages are 5X more, but still not quite enough--with two wage-earners, and day care to pay.
Funny how that works...