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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The irony is that the same people who are demanding maternity/paternity leave for a year are the same people who crap on SAHMs. Like it’s important but not THAT important. [/quote]

I agree but I also don't like it when people are like "you don't need paid leave, just become a SAHM." And I say this as someone who did, in fact, become a SAHM when my childcare options were crap and my employer would not agree to extending my leave (even unpaid! I wasn't even asking for money, just time).

I would have liked the option of keeping my job without having to send my infant to a questionable childcare setting that I wasn't comfortable with and that was statistically more likely to cause behavioral issues later on.

But I also think women need to stop judging other women for become SAHMs, whether on a short or long term basis. The perception of all SAHMs a privileged and lazy is both misogynist and hyper-capitalist -- totally disregarding the unpaid labor done primarily by women with children and in homes as though it doesn't count and is not a worthwhile way to spend your time.[/quote]

I think one thing driving the lack of paid parental leave in the US is that to truly solve the problem, you’d need 7-8 years of paid parental leave per woman.  If you want to be at home with young kids and don’t want to send kids to daycare, then six months to one year of parental leave per child only helps so much.  Even friends of mine in Europe really struggle with childcare once their leave has ended.  Their leave also seems to very much stall their careers.  The only answer is to not have kids.  [/quote]

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