So my wife and I are very conservative, but I wanted to see what other people on this board thought of this subject. In a lot of ways, we are a reversal of the usual Traditionalist family: she is an attorney who makes more than $150,000 per year, while I make around $40,000 doing a job that I love (and at this point with no way of moving to a more lucrative career, for what it's worth). We have always planned on having a family, and I have always planned on staying home and homeschooling the kids. It's just what I have always wanted to do, especially having been home-schooled myself (my wife was not). Also, for what it's worth, we met in college, and my wife has always been interested in a career outside the home, and has no interest staying at home. On the other hand, I have always really wanted to stay at home in order to raise our children with our core values, and especially to be able to focus on their academic development from an early age. I might also add that I most enjoy spending time at home, cooking is my favorite hobby, and I would find great personal fulfillment in this.
We have never really talked about this with other Traditionalists. One day, though, we realized that such a situation had never occurred within our community (NY state)-- there are only stay-at-home moms, which of course I realize is the norm, and which I appreciated from my own childhood. But I really just want to see what people view as the Traditionalist perspective on this hypothetical family arrangement (we don't have children yet!).