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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"BTW, what are YOU doing to help secure parental leave benefits besides complain on an anonymous board. (FWIW, I WOTH FT and you bet that I've agitated my superiors and participated in industry conferences for better parental leave practices for our company/industry.) "

Nothing. I was, and am, happy to work within the existing system.[/quote]

You have no sympathy for parents who can't afford $1800/month for daycare? Parents who have to work three jobs to make ends meet? Mothers who are afforded zero job security if they can't return to work in 8 weeks (assuming, of course, that they're employed by a large enough corporation for at least a year)--even in the event of a c-section or a child in the NICU? Parents who work for companies that don't subsidize health insurance? Public schools that don't provide aftercare to ensure that working parents can work a standard 8 hour day? And, no, not everyone can plan for illness or being laid off or not having adequate health insurance or that they will have healthy babies.

Do you read the newspapers? Can you not understand the dire economic circumstances that many parents find themselves in despite planning to the best of their abilities?

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