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It's viable and modern enough that over 25% of women do it [0]. And there's a wide spectrum of people who make that choice. There's a large amount of parents that take on that role because their alternatives (e.g. retail jobs or gig work) would leave them in a worse position after paying for childcare, but no one's claiming retail work is not economically viable. Though if I had to make a judgement, I'd say raising your children full-time is more valuable work than e.g. Instacart or Starbucks, which are both luxuries.

Honestly I don't know how you could even make an economic statement about it that doesn't boil down to a tautology unless you're also willing to say e.g. teachers aren't an economically valuable job.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/03/almost-1-...