I’m pretty liberal but I’m also big on individual freedoms. I also read thousands of pages about child development and education before deciding to home school my kids for the first few years. It’s not good for kids for sit at a desk all day at a young age. I think it would be better to start formal education at about age 8-10 depending on the kid.
But the parents can’t afford all that day care, etc.
We lived on 20,000 a year for several years so I could stay home with the kids. That was 1980s and 1990s, so inflation has happened - but that was still considered to be poverty level I believe.
It wasn’t easy.