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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I ask another question for people who employ nannies and are happy to offer maternity leave (either paid or unpaid): do you feel that it negatively affects your children for their one of the main adults in their life to be gone for 3 months? I don't have a nanny, but I would be angry if I hired a caregiver for my child, expecting that person to stay until my child was say, at least 1, and ideally til they were 2, and then that person disappeared for 3 months and I had to bring in another caregiver. That seems like it would be fine for children above 2, but maybe not healthy for children under 2.[/quote]

Maternity leave is part of life.  Nannies can leave whenever they want (and often do), for better opportunities or personal considerations.  Similarly employers can fire nannies per their contract terms when they move/lose jobs/get daycare slots etc.  It's not forced servitude for life.  Yes, you can be annoyed that they leave when you thought the nanny were staying, or that they dare have children when they're supposed to be devoted only to your children, but nannies are people too.  In daycares and preschools and elementary schools you see pregnant staff too, and they have maternity leave.  Somehow the world keeps on spinning and our kids survive (ideally our kids are even happy for the caregiver to have that new baby in their life!) [/quote]

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