I think it's great if a woman can and wants to be a stay at home mom. I think it's beneficial to the children and they did a research here where they found that children who had stay at home mothers had better language skills (spoken and spelling/grammer) compared to children who's mothers work full-time for many, many hours.
In Denmark, I don't think I'd want my child to be mainly raised by institutions. I think unfortunately lots of kids here are raised by institutions because the parents work too much (and don't have the energy/desire to raise their kids the few hours they have them) and it's creating kids that are spoiled and behave horribly.
I agree with you! In many school and day care settings, instructors aren't allowed to discipline children at ALL (I don't mean physical punishment, I mean things like no time outs, no toys taken away, no scolding, no lectures.. lol), and there are a lot of kids who take that to mean that they can do ANYTHING they please.
I used to work as a teaching assistant for elementary students who had been expelled from traditional school settings. Those children, who received no care or attention at home, had acted out at school and gotten themselves expelled... Only to end up in a facility that was, in many ways, BETTER than the public school they'd attended in the first place. They were all TERRIBLE when it came to behavior. They swore like little sailors, hit each other, screamed, refused to stay in their seats, vandalized, stole from one another (and the staff)... and my classroom was for kids about 8 years old (third grade or thereabouts).
I really think that being able to spend more time with your children is far far better than plopping the child into an over-crowded daycare setting or worse, leaving him/her home alone.
I'm not saying no one should have a job, or that you're a bad parent if you work full time and leave your kid at a daycare. For some people, that has to be done. Bills need to be paid! Groceries cost money!
But if you follow up your long day by coming home and telling your child you're too tired to play or spend time with them, and you spend what little time you have with your child ignoring them, that is the real issue.
And then there's the daycare fees!
Out here in California, USA, it's more expensive to send a child to daycare than it is to be a stay at home mom. If I worked 40hrs a week in my old retail management position, I wouldn't have made enough money even BEFORE income taxes to cover the cost of sending my child to a daycare, let alone trying to pay for it when the government has taken 1/3 of my monthly wages. My husband would have had to shell out the extra cash to cover the daycare fees, which would basically mean I'd be working my butt off for no real reason, spending less time with my child, and we'd be LOSING money instead of gaining any.
Staying home with my child (when I have one) is actually going to wind up saving us money, so there's that argument, too. If you look at your local daycare prices, and you factor in the cost of transportation, daycare fees (sometimes these places start charging you extra money if you're even 10mins late for pick-up!), and whether or not the daycare's hours match your work schedule, you might find that staying home is the better option.
One of the places I looked up a while back charges something like $2,000 for a two week daycare period. That's $4,000 a month! At the time, I only made $2,800 a month after income tax. There's no way that would ever have worked out. Haha
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I think it's pretty expensive here as well but not sure of the prices as I haven't looked into it
It's crazy. I think people here are trying too hard to earn more and more money so they can afford a big house, 2 expensive cars, expensive vacations and so they can spoil their ignored children with material stuff to make up for lack of attention or ability to raise them properly. It's really sad
They're not much for hiring older people because they're just going to retire in 15-20 years. 
This is creating a problem in that there aren't enough jobs for the young finishing college because the older set don't want to retire so it creates fewer job openings
