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Because it's not about individuals making good or bad decisions, but about building a good, equal society. And importantly this means caring for children as a c
by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
Because it's not about individuals making good or bad decisions, but about building a good, equal society. And importantly this means caring for children as a collective society.
- ryanmercer 7y agoBoth of my parents worked full time and my mother went back to work very shortly after having me. I was plenty cared for without my parents sitting at home with me for weeks or months. Pretty much all of my friends with kids the women went back to work within a few weeks and the men didn't take time off. I can't see how sitting at home with a child that will have no memories of you sitting at home with them, that will sleep half the day and cry the other half, for 12 weeks (U.S. FMLA) or 14 months (apparently Germany) will make any significant difference in the child's adult life.
- swozey 7y agoIt's great that all of those parents raised perfectly healthy children and weren't dealing with the NICU, post-partum depression/issues and everything else that can happen.
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago"Pretty much all of my friends with kids the women went back to work within a few weeks and the men didn't take time off." Yes, but statistically, PPD, surgery, year-long health problems, etc. are common among women. And we have also recently uncovered that PPD also can occur to men despite having not given birth.