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I was exagerating... I will admit.
When my son was born we were renting a house in North York. My wife stayed home and opened a daycare so she could stay home and make money. She returned work when we bought our house and moved to Riverdale... had just entered Jr. Kindergarten.
When our daughter was born, my wife was just starting back at school. She both worked and went to school. Her mother looked after our daughter on school days and our son was in daycare. Money was very tight.
We do not have the space in our house to either rent out a room or make a basement apartment... We were lucky that her job permitted her to have the baby with her and that her mother was able to care for the baby while she was at school. We could never have afforded to send both our kids to daycare at the time without both of us working and even then it would have been tight.
I know a few other people who are stay at home in our area but their spouse is pulling in over 150K.
I would still argue that for average income earners (i.e. those who are in the 40 to 50K range) it just isn't a practical option for a parent to stay home.
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