>Presenting facts: reality in my country tells that universal maternity and paternity leaves are the most abused systems and tax payers are not happy with this.

>Presenting facts: reality in my country tells that universal maternity and paternity leaves are the most abused systems and tax payers are not happy with this. googling "canada paternity maternity leave abuse" gets no matching hits. show me >The low income people have a huge number of children (2 sisters with 33 kids in total were most discussed) just to live on taxpayers money, they never worked between childbirths. average number of children in canada in 2011 was less than 2. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002... how many standard deviations away from that mean is ~16 children? so you're talking about decrying a social policy that overwhelmingly improves outcomes for women, children, and communities https://www.milbank.org/wp-content/uploads/mq/volume-96/september-2018/NANDI_et_al-2018-The_Milbank_Quarterly.pdf https://www.milbank.org/wp-content/uploads/mq/volume-96/sept... because some poor person somewhere once had a bunch of kids. these are distorted facts (or what we in /my/ country, like to call fake news).