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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Workplace benefits are are not moral issues, they are socieital and company choices that have been made. Upper-class women who want themselves and their peers to maintain their lifestyles (can't spare any of that dual-income for things beyond our wants and desires, others need to pay for our needs, right?) and therefore need their child-rearing financially subsidized clamed paid funds toward their child-rearing is a moral right. Young-ish (meaning not truly middle aged or elderly), mostly white women advocated for this, claiming needs of their children--more sympathetic parties of people than other sets of groups in our sociey who could also benefit from subsidies (elderly, inner city single moms who do not have office jobs, etc). [/quote]

Understood but at the individual level there can be a cost to those around you. If you are in a small team and someone needs to cover your work for 12 weeks when you don't really have any need to be on vacation there is a cost to the person who is carrying your burden on the job. Of course there are larger societal issues, but blanket policies ignore any individual cost.[/quote]

People other than new parents will have desparate needs to take 12 weeks off of work at times. [/quote]

agreed, and hopefully they have sick or vacation time to cover it. Another coworker of mine was very ill last year and everyone happily covered for her while she was out, but the guy who is golfing while the rest of the team is scrambling to do his job breeds resentment.[/quote]

But they do not get an extra benefit of 12 weeks like new parents get. It is fine that you are not concerned about this,    but don't make it seem like they are not at a disadvantage. Again, you make not care, and that is your right. [/quote]

I think I'm agreeing with you, I think people who are ill should get enough time to recover from an illness but new dads are not part of that group and haven't done anything to merit a 12 week vacation.[/quote]

sorry I misunderstood[/quote]

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