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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've posted earlier. My opinion is that women should take a year or two off after baby's birth, at this critical time when baby really wants/needs mom, baby is (ideally) breastfeeding, etc.  Then mom returns to work.  I don't think that moms should not be part of the workforce - they should. But a break in those important few years after birth would benefit baby (and probably mom, too).
And yes, i am aware that our country doesn't make this easy for women, that it could be hard to re-enter the workforce, etc.[/quote]

Well, think about that. When my child was 2 I was pregnant with another, so wouldn't have made much sense to go back for a bit and then quit again. So that is 4 years out of the workforce if I took just over 2.5 years for the first and around 1 for the second. Yeah, not so easy to jump back in, and no guarantee about flexibility etc. I stayed because I had a good commute, a boss/department head who loved me and wanted to work with me on a reasonable schedule, etc. We also have daycare at my husband's work so the convenience and accountability factor seemed good, not to mention he is a ton more involved in their lives than if I stayed home.

So, I disagree it is ideal. There are so many other factors than just the picture of mom and baby bonding all day. It's just more complex than that. I do agree that more standard, longer maternity leaves and flexible policies are necessary, but I don't think we'd get there if every new mom dropped out of the workforce for a few years. Family friendly policies are not there to recruit women who have been out of the workforce for years. They are there to retain talented women who have babies. [/quote]

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