Stay-at-home parents of two children in the United States do roughly 200 combined hours of cleaning, shopping, cooking, childcare and other tasks each month, a new study by Beike Biotechnology shows, labor that would cost between $4,000 and $5,200 per month to outsource in a handful of American cities.... The study
The Swiss towns of Zurich and Basel were the places where stay-at-home parents were found to have the most monetary value, with San Francisco coming in at No. 3—a stay-at-home parent of two children in the city does about $5,200 worth of tasks per month,Of the 10 cities where stay-at-home parents of two were the most valuable, four were in the United States: Washington D.C. was ranked No. 7 , New York City was No. 8 and Los Angeles came in ninth .