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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying, based on shaky research, that a parent should stay home or work part time for years, is absolutely anti-woman.

Paid parental leave is great and I SUPPORT IT but no program will make that parent whole for their financial and career losses as a result of taking a step back from your career for years. For starters, no paid leave program offers multiple YEARS of paid leave. While some do mandate full salaries, most do not. And there is evidence that more than 6 months of leave has negative career impacts.

And you can say well men SHOULD be making that sacrifice just as much as women and I AGREE with that, but the REALITY is that this burden currently falls and will continue to fall mostly on WOMEN. Which you very well know and are ignoring. That sacrifice is significant and has massive impacts on women's ability to be financially secure in retirement.[/quote]

So what?  Having kids is a sacrifice!  If you'd be afraid to take 6 months of leave due to potential negative career impacts, I don't really know what to tell you.  Some of us, believe it not, would be ok with a financial loss of going unpaid for a year, so long as we had a job to go back to.  The only fields where I actually know women who have been able to do this are nursing and education.

Guess I'm just not career-driven enough, lol.[/quote]

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