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If we didn't need to work 8 hours daily, having a kid would be a less of a problem.
My wife and I have one kid, who's in daycare 5 days a week so that we can work. We're snowed in today, but since I'm a remote worker I'm in the home office and my wife is handling child care.
My wife has nowhere else to be and nothing that particularly needs doing. I fully expect she's going to be touched out, frazzled, and on a short fuse by the end of the day because being stuck in the same four rooms for hours with a needy three-year old whose only major interests are (1) monster truck (2) excavator and (3) monster truck excavator is a lot for anybody.
It bears emphasis that the isolated nuclear family is a historical anomaly, and before the mid 20th-century it was extremely common to live in a multi-generational household. Being able to hand off kids to a grandparent or sibling or aunt/uncle in order to accomplish something or even just get a moment to oneself is a tremendous liberty that few (American) parents have these days.
Even without working, believe me : it's hard.