re: Oh, I noticed.
There's a faulty premise here, in that it assumes that "the culture" pays people for their value. "The culture" doesn't pay anybody anything. Companies and employers pay people for doing a certain job.
Families don't have salaries. You do things for a family because that's how it works. In a family where work and home care are divided, a caretaker doesn't get paid for caretaking the family. Neither does the breadwinner get paid by the family for bringing back wages. The breadwinner's wages belong to the whole family. Or should.
Putting raising a family into the same category as any other job is a false comparison. It's like asking somebody what they get paid for doing volunteer work. It's not a valid question.