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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Do most women want to stay at home after having kids? I don't think they do.[/b] I personally would like to work 7 hour days after having kids (instead of 8.5). That would be ideal for me, and you could cut my salary by that same amount. I liked having 12 weeks paid maternity leave and then returning to work.

I see the stats in newspapers on maternity leave, but it doesn't mesh with what I see first hand. All of my girl friends have either had paid maternity leave through work, or paid through a work STD policy, or they used their own annual and sick leave (what I did). Career jobs do all have maternity leave or STD policies for birth. [/quote]

No, they don’t. This is the point so many people pushing parental leave completely miss. We don’t have it because most people don’t want it. The average woman who does want it doesn’t want it paid for by the government for X number of weeks. They want to stay home for years.

I’ve known many women who only have 4-6 weeks of leave but it’s been because they work for themselves, or a small company with a lot of flexibility. The statistics on this are incredibly misleading. [/quote]

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