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Originally Posted by Vasilisa  Missing, its' silly to give men a year maternal leave. First of all it's a woman who gives birth to a baby and needs time for recovery (believe me, it's a shock for the body). Second, a man can not nurse a child.
May be if men want maternal leave, they will figure out the way to be pregnant, give birth for kids and nurse?  |
you are missing (no pun) the point which is that single people shouldn't be forced to subsidize breeders, male or female. The only fair solution, IMO is to give everyone a year off, to take at any time. How they use that time is up to them. Make it so that spouses can give their leave time so men can give their leave time to their wives, if they want. That's two years, which should be good for two children. If you use that time up, or if you want more kids, tough. Do it on your own time/$$$. Really a year may be too much, six months might be better (which would be good for one kid). And I'm sure even that's not sustainable. But again we have feminism to thank for driving women into the workforce and creating this dilemma. I hate to sound like a broken record on this, but most women don't see (or don't want to acknowledge) the connection here. If I was female and wanted kids, I'd be pretty pissed off.