My wife and I both worked all the time our children were living with us (now, at 25 and 28 they are up and away);
we just made sure that at least one of us was at home whehever a child was at home (rather than at school).
I have several children who attend my language school who have single paretns, or have divorced parents who stay in different places.
All those parents do their damndest to juggle their jobs around so they can have as much time as possible with their children.
Here in Bulgaria if you are a single parent and you don't have work you generally starve.
And why, forbye, should it be any other way.
I don't object to money from tax I pay being used to feed the daft and the lame; but lazy sh*t bags? Not at all.