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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Np I have friends overseas. The pay isn’t 100% of your salary on maternity leave (and their pay is already lower). So once they have a baby, their salaries take a big hit. They can’t return to work earlier because it’s stigmatized and daycare don’t take babies before 1 (one friend mentioned before 3 but idk if that’s true). Once kids are school aged, they have the same issues that moms have here where school ends at 3 but work ends at 5, however aftercare’s aren’t plentiful. Many stick to one kid for financial and logistical reasons. My Norwegian friends own their own condo, but it’s a 2 bedroom. They only had one kid for space reasons. I’m sure none of those reasons are insurmountable for people who really want kids but maternity leave isn’t this panacea that it’s purported to be. [/quote]

I'm sure you understand that it varies by country.[b] In Norway, the pay is 80%[/b]. For one year of parental leave split between two parents.[b] Their pay takes a 20% hit [/b]but they don't have to do any work, and their jobs are protected.

Do you think things work better in the U.S., where there are 0 weeks of mandated paid parental leave for either parent? And only 40% of Americans have access to unpaid leave under FMLA? Do you think that's encouraging people to have babies more than 80% paid leave for a year?

And I ask again, why are we as a society okay with only women taking a salary hit for having children? Why shouldn't parents bear equal risk in bringing children into the world?

If your solution is to fund parental leave 100% of salary instead of 80% of salary, I'm all for it. But I strongly suspect that's not what you're suggesting. [/quote]

The max parental leave amount is $1,538 a week in Norway. It’s 80% if you have a lower wage job in Norway.  Stop being misleading.

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All of europe caps the paid leave that is taxpayer funded.

Your employer can choose to do whatever, make you whole for a few weeks, months, whatever. Depends how valuable you are. [/quote]

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