Tony I think you're living in the past to be honest. Much as I'm sure most people would love to have a little nuclear family where dad goes to his lovely secure 9-5 job and mum staus home with her 2.5 children and bakes cakes, it just doesn't happen that way.
Look at the divorce rates for a start - I believe it used to be 30% in the UK? I'ts now 50% in New Zealand. Look at single parents, people who are losing jobs through no fault of their own, same sex couples, parents with disabilities, and the more and more common - two working parents. This is the reality. Couples are having children later and later - 20 years ago a 30 year old having her first baby was regarded as an "elderly primp", nowadays 30 is young and 40 is the new age to start having babies. When they do have children, they rely on grandparents sometimes but usually childcare centres and then have to organise it so that they don't end up paying more for childcare than they would to stay home and only have one income.
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