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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is my concern with gender-neutral leave for the birth of a child:  
Reality is that you do not need two people to be at home caring for an infant.  You just don't.  So, let's say a woman and her husband are both home for 3 months of leave.  The man is going to either mess around, giving the parental leave the reputation of a joke, or he is going to work from home -- take calls, answer e-mails.  I'm worried parental leave will become the equivalent of working from home for three months, which is not ideal for a mother recovering from birth and breastfeeding.  The reality is that the mother has a different need and obligation during that time than the father.  His body ain't involved.  I want to preserve that time for women and I think adding men to the mix will screw it up. [/quote]

Disagree - for the first month, the mom definitely needs/deserves someone around to help. that's how many other cultures do it - we're alone in essentially abandoning mothers with their newborns. After that, I agree it would be a little weird if the parents took all the leave simultaneously. I know a lot of families where the mom did 3 months, then the dad did the next 3 months. I think that's really great because a) it invests the dad in parenting equally and b) lets you delay childcare until the baby is 6 months old and a little more robust and more likely to be sleeping through the night. [/quote]

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