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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know why they're weeding it down.

In 2015, 880K women took the parental bonus. 170K men

In 2022, 1.4 million women took the parental bonus. 400K men.

Germany has a population of 50 million people between the ages of 20 and 66 today. So basically...4% of their population is on permanent vacation at a cost of 5.6 billion euros year-round (estimating a 40K salary per parent). [/quote]

Surely there must be some better solution between what you describe and what we have—or more specifically, don’t have—here in the US. When I had my only child, I took 3 months of leave which was a combination of accrued sick and vacation time. And I was lucky to have accrued that time since I was at the job over a decade. Another woman I worked with who had less tenure and a less well paid position took two weeks. There must be some happy medium between ZERO “parental bonus” in the US and what Germany offers.[/quote]

2 weeks of parental payments could work. But Germany hasn't yet weeded down the MONTHS the parents are taking, just the cost associated. They might end up like the UK? where its something like 6-7 weeks at full cost (so 80% of the paycheck) and after that you get $100 and that's it. You can stay out up to a year though.[/quote]

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