America needs more stay-at-home parents

Frida Ghitis: We would be better off if we had more stay-at-home mothers and fathers.

She says the view is derided by feminists, disdained among economists, ignored by most of the media.

Ghitis says the average woman is far more open to staying at home than the average liberal columnist.

She cites nature: The average mother is more disposed to caring for a baby than is the average father.

Generation X parents talk all the time about how much more we wandered the neighborhood, unscheduled and unsupervised, in the old days .

Stay-at-home mothers provide local, informal, or irregular child care.

America would be a bit better off if we had a few more stay at home parents.