Have you discussed having her go back to work after the youngest start preschool? Some people just aren’t built to be stay at home parents. I know I get bored out of my brain if I am between work for more than a month at a time. It sounds like your wife is similar.

Does that mean that social insects are k-strategist? Think about it. For one queen bee to beget the next queen bee, she produces an entire colony of workers and drones, which in turn put in an enormous amount of work to build and maintain a hive. That’s a lot of work just for the genes to be passed down to the next colony.