You are making a claim that I don't think has substance. You keep susbstituting "holiday" for "leave". It is not a holiday to take care of a baby, it's work. Yo

You are making a claim that I don't think has substance. You keep susbstituting "holiday" for "leave". It is not a holiday to take care of a baby, it's work. You are not going to be traveling to nice places or drinking it up. You'll be sleep deprived and busy the whole time because babies are incapable of taking care of themselves. You don't necessarily need to be dealing with the baby 24/7 but someone needs to be available to react to the babies needs or their suicidal tendencies of trying to touch/eat every dangerous thing they see. Our current setup puts this entirely on the wife and leaves the husband out of it. Requiring paternal leave would both equalize make and female employees in the eyes of employers _and_ allow for the parents to provide care to the child without driving themselves into poor health or depression