Parental Leave is ridiculous. It's much better to have a thriving job market where people make enough money to save for their own break and can find a new job after. If someone leaves for a year, do you fire them or the replacement when they come back?https://qz.com/work/1541822/the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-is-backtracking-on-year-long-parental-leaves/ …
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Who is it on then if not the employer?
The family? The community/local government? The country? Any one of these could have a stake in higher birthrates & better child-rearing; employers don’t, and when you funnel benefits through institutions with misaligned incentives you risk creating a subtle but pernicious mess
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Isn't this the country/local government doing something? What matters is not what could happen but what is the actual effect on birthrates/child care. It's a popular policy and if it works in achieving the goals then what's the issue?
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Incentives matter. I don't think it's a coincidence that as a lot of companies have created subtly anti-family work cultures, societies have grown less family-oriented & birthrates have plummeted. If we're looking at outcomes, they're... not good.
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Not sure what constitutes "better" child-rearing. I've read stories of women from "developing nations" who take a day, a couple days, or maybe a week at most to rest/relax & then it's back to regular life but now they carry the baby with them wherever they go.
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The difference is that in "developed nations" corporations abound. If we want an "industrialized/modern/advanced" civilization wherein the majority of people work for a corporation then it should be on the employers to make it possible for women to work and care for an infant.
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