I upvoted this comment. I think there are issues here though. > you shouldn’t have to choose between a career and having children. I'm not sure what you mean

I upvoted this comment. I think there are issues here though. > you shouldn’t have to choose between a career and having children. I'm not sure what you mean by this. If ones chosen career consumes a lot of time, the time comes from somewhere regardless of your gender. > In the EU they mandate equal paid leave for both parents and require holding a job for them when they return to the workplace [0]. This means that not only are parents given the opportunity to share actual parenting, but also that their children wind up with better care by their actual parents for the vital early months of their existence. Indeed, and this is reflective of many things. One of which is the idea that society should encourage and/or protect the decision to have progeny beyond the gender imbalance inherent in the fact that men as a sex cannot bear children. It's possibly a harder sell in the US because of the immense value placed on individual liberty.