(Des Moines is an area on my radar)   for example https://www.redfin.com/WA/Des-Moines/403-S-192nd-St-98148/home/338852  has been on the market a while so a semi-aggressive offer would not be an unrealistic move, though its probably on the "habitable fixer" end of things and I understand that with a child in school you may be a lot more selective about location,  neighborhood area etc.    

One resident's child was quarantined for 14 days and she was kut of work but back at work and will pay as soon as they get check paid on 15th.

Ok boomer. 

In our case adult female children had a tendency to pop out offspring as if they were a PEZ dispenser, often producing a child with every man they casually dated, then dropping off the children at "grandma and grandpa" to raise."

All it takes is a neighbors child to have "elevated lead" (which isn't uncommon) and a lawyer and...well...you can guess the rest.  

Landlords would be barred from evicting tenants able to prove a connection between their unpaid or late rent and their coronavirus struggles.Her legislation would apply to tenants with unpaid or late rent due to a coronavirus-related illness; reduction in income; loss of employment; reduction in work hours; business or office closure; need to miss work to care without compensation for an immediate family member or child; or similar circumstance.

Family is the easy answer.. and I guess in my child rearing years I wanted enough to support them well and put both my kids through collage on my dime.. so they were not saddled with student loans..

I want my child to go to college even though he is 16 years old and owns his own business with an employee. 

School is where you send your child to be raised by other children.""

Parents want their small child's bedroom close by.