This makes intuitive sense to me but doesn&#x27;t match up with what I&#x27;ve seen anecdotally. I lived in some very wealthy suburbs of NYC, and nearly every family was a two-earner family. My wife and I also homeschool, and have met a bunch of other homeschoolers both in CT and now in CO. By your logic, you&#x27;d expect the primary earners in the homeschooling families to earn more than in the average family, but in my experience the reverse is true.<p>You&#x27;re right that there&#x27;s a level of income at which one parent staying home is just not a plausible choice. But it&#x27;s a lot lower than I&#x27;d expected -- I&#x27;ve met some homeschooling families that are doing extremely well by their children at a substantially lower income level than I&#x27;d thought feasible. I think the issue here in most cases is less a problem of economics than of cultural values. (Before anyone reads anything pernicious into that, all I mean is that I think American culture overvalues possessions and professional accomplishments and undervalues family in specific and relationships in general.)