R.J.
I will dare you.... right here and now... to try walking in someone else's shoes for a month.
Go get 3 jobs that pay minimum wage. Work 18 hours a day.
Do it for a month.
Now, tell me how much less you love your children because you have to work 3 jobs.
Now, tell me how you spend your time that you can squeeze in with your children.
Now, tell me if your children should be taken away because you have to trust that their homework is being taken care of during their afterschool care.
Now, tell me if it's a choice between tutoring and food which one you choose to buy for your kids. Tell me if you choose necessary medicine or rent.
It's not BETTER parenting, having the time each and every single day to spend with your kids. It's LUCKIER parenting.
Each and every single one of us could get screwed and end up in poverty. Lose everything we've worked for and have to start from scratch. Trust funds can be mismanaged, a spouse can die, homes repossessed, credit scores tanked, divorce, medical catastrophe, markets plummet, insurance companies go under. It can happen to ANYONE. Anyone can end up working 3 jobs just to live in a crackerbox apartment trying to be able to feed their kids.
I get to homeschool because I'm LUCKY. Not because I work hard and plan well (I do), but because I'm durn lucky. Not because I'm a better parent. I've made a couple hundred k a year, and I've been homeless (both before kids). I was the SAME PERSON in both scenarios. I'm the same person now, that I was then. Working hard, planning well, and doing the best that I could with what I had.