“Stay at home moms” includes many moms who work from home OR work in part-time jobs. Very few kollel families have the family support for the husband to be a full-time learner and the wife to simply sit at home taking care of the kids. Nor do welfare payments come even close to providing sufficient support for larger families. Unless they are printing money in the basement, someone in the family is working. The good news is that a small but growing percentage of kollel yungerleit are finding ways to earn a parnassah while learning and some yeshivos are allowing for such work/learn arrangements.
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