Without parental leave I might be dead
I really cant understand the logic of forcing women back into work after 2-4 weeks.<p>Its just not beneficial for anyone.<p>The mum is utterly frazzled.<p>The employer gets half an employee back<p>Society is conditioned to think that the only practical way to raise a baby is to give up on work&#x2F;get live in care.<p>now, to look at it from a &quot;my mum managed, I don&#x27;t want to undermine the american nuclear family&quot; point of view:<p>Yes, mums working is an anathema, but given that exceedingly difficult to own a good house, have good health insurance <i>and</i> have an economically inactive partner at home, I suspect the problem here isn&#x27;t the mum. I suspect its the salami slicing of wages to the average joe&#x2F;joelle.<p>Even if it undermines the american nuclear family, having such a big obstacle to the &quot;correct&quot;[1] type of family having babies is going to undermine the &quot;correct&quot; family having babies. Which means one&#x27;s chosen view of family dies out with inflation.<p>Given that _every_ other &quot;civilised&quot; country has some sort of rudimentary care for new parents, which doesn&#x27;t acutally cost that much, I can&#x27;t see any reasonable objection to not having it.<p>[1]I&#x27;m not going to define what correct is, its divisive and allows people to project what they think is wrong with &quot;the other side&quot; who ever they might be, rather than engage with the specifics at hand.