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As someone from a traditional Catholic family we older kids were expected to help parent the little ones. I think now that I learned so much from the experience and I have a wonderful bond with my youngest sister to this day.

"...we older kids were expected to help parent the little ones."

This is a very important part of the social fabric( and reinforced the family values, not the school or daycare system values) that has been depleted and the results are apparent in American society.

The family cohesion is vital to the survival of our nation as a free republic. We've already marginalized our elders and now are being brainwashed to do the same to the children. The two income family has forced many to limit family size and delegate essential family time to total strangers.

Even the most mundane family time spent together has an inherent value on every social level. One point I would like to mention as an aside, is that home educators across this nation are for the most part living on incomes between $25,000 and $50,000 so there are good options outside the box but they are not necessarily easy ones to make.