Should I Stay or Should I Go... to Work?

What do you imagine your future life to be?

Will your husband work while you stay at home raising the children?

Will you both go to work to make more money so that you can provide more for your children?

Would you rather the father stay home and mother go to work because she got the college degree and he didn't?

There are many scenarios and factors that juggle in to working and parenting. Times have constituted much change over the years with the Industrial Revolution and Women's Movement. Traditionally we all have the average American life painted into our minds of old time farms with the whole family working together. That doesn't seem plausible in today's times.

Then in more recent times before world war's we have the painted picture of the mother doing house chores and tending to the children while the father is at work. Post-war constitutes a change. Since women had to go to work while their husbands went off to war they found it more convenient to keep their jobs when upon their husbands arrival home. I mean, they had more money, more independence, and more respect outside of the home... not to mention more social interaction to feed their socially starved tendencies with other adults on a daily basis.

So, now we have today. Where a majority of families have two incomes stemming from both the mother and the father. How do you think this affects the children? How do you think this affects the family?

My guess is that families can make it work, but it isn't ideal for the best support for the kids and marriage. With both spouses gone at work, who takes care of the home? The children are at school, groceries need to be picked up, dinner ready, laundry, etc. 

In my opinion the ideal family situation would be that of a full time working husband, a stay at home mother even when the children go to school, and then children who go to school. At the end of each of their work days (career, housework/chores, education) each of the family members come home to bond together as a family. Weekends can constitute a different type of work, play, rest, and worship together.