Would you pay $10K a year to spend more time with your kids and ensure that their education is based on your family's values? I sure as hell would.

I will admit for my own family that in the stay-at-home spouse there is still that US entrepreneurial spirit that kicks and haws. Free time in between meal prep, the playing, the educating, the cleaning, and the watching feels like money not earned. We haven't put that spirit to bed yet, but at some point, if it's only creating stress and not much income, we are basically rebuilding a prison around ourselves after having escaped one built by some other employer.