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Speaking as a father, sitting home with my child for a year and half would probably have driven the whole family crazy.
by pragmatic 16y ago
Speaking as a father, sitting home with my child for a year and half would probably have driven the whole family crazy.
- Tyrannosaurs 16y agoFor me the ideal would be part time. I'd love to spend more time with my daughter (15 months old) but I'm not cut out for 7 days a week childcare.
- parbo 16y agoIn Sweden, the employer can not deny a request for part time work (75%) if the child is 8 years or younger.
- m_eiman 16y agoYou've only compensated for the loss of income for a total of 480 days, though. That'll let one parent work 75% for about five years, while earning about 95% of their full time salary.
- dagw 16y agoFirst of all only you're only fully compensated 360 of those 480 days, for the other 120 days you only get the minimum level of compensation. Secondly it depends on what their full time salary is. There is a hard upper limit on how much you can get compensated, and most people with good jobs are quite a bit over that limit. So someone with a higher paying job might only get 40-50% of his salary.
- m_eiman 16y agoThe ceiling is about 58kUSD per year.
- gcheong 16y agoTo what extent does the government check up on how you are spending your paternity leave time?
- dagw 16y agoThey basically don't. But if they do discover that you weren't actively looking after your child, then you will be made to pay back the money and possibly face fraud charges.
- rada 16y agoMy husband has been taking care of our baby full-time and it's been great. Why do you think your situation would be different?