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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To PP above (“‘someone else’” doesn’t pay for it”). I think you misunderstand public services. None of your examples are like maternity leave. Maybe you don’t drive on highways, but this country can’t function without them. The transportation of goods and people is key to our economy. Have you seen a country without highways? Did it seem prosperous to you?  Likewise, public schools aren’t just a service for parents, like you’re doing parents a favor by paying. [b]They are a key component of our democracy.[/b] We all need educated citizens to vote.

You brought up disability insurance. I am not against disability insurance, and I think the way it’s used now to support maternity leave as well as other illnesses is fine. The key is that it supports other situations besides pregnancy, and that is has rules surrounding its use (size of company, etc).

This thread is not about disability insurance. It’s about individual employers (not businesses with 50 or more employees) giving their nannies paid maternity leaves out of their own pocket.[/quote]

PP, and this is my point exactly. Paid parental leave is also a key component of building a sound society, just as public education and highways are. They are social goods. Affordable daycare and early childhood education are as well. We need healthy, supported children and families to thrive in years to come. This isn't about being a do-gooder--it's about building a sustainable nation that will have an economic future. When having children becomes so expensive that it is a hardship, people respond by having fewer children. Those children are the future workforce (and we currently have historically low unemployment rates with worker shortages in many essential fields). So even if you are purely driven by your own economic self interest, you should want to see future generations of children who have access to family supports and education. You don't have to wish for it out of the goodness of your heart.

But yes, many individual employers do offer paid leaves out of their own pockets, as do many larger employers. It's a Band-Aid for a problem that needs to be solved at a state or national scale, though.[/quote]

But I do not agree with you that we need more children to be born to people who can’t support them from 0-5 without assistance. There are millions of American families who can afford to have children without help, and if we need any additional increase in population, we can bring in immigrants.[/quote]

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