I am working at the minute and am due to leave work ta the end of the eyar to have child #2, childcare cost me $1100 a month so though even i you get a sibling rate at ceche I would be only $500 better off a month. If I choose to stay home I would get more from CL and it would work out the same as if I was working and I would be paying for travel to and from work and long hours rushing aorund getting dinner etc. It will be abit tight either way but when my children are old enough I might have a career change and do something else. I think its just they way things are these days with both parents work as hings are alot more dearer than a few generations ago.
I think every situation is different from the next and its up to the individual families themselves to decide.