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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have European friends with white collar jobs and similar education levels, and they all have a much lower standard of living than my friends here. I think it’s strange when posters on here suggest having a family and dual income in Europe is some cakewalk. It seems worse to me over there because they can’t outsource like we can.

Also the parental leaves are generous but they have to be given the lower wages. I don’t want to be rude to my friends but it’s challenging to not tell them I could have unlimited parental leave because I’m married and my spouse earns 4-5x what theirs does. Of course they need government welfare to spend time with their baby whereas [b]the average American woman doesn’t. [/b]Because if the stronger economy and higher wages the government here doesn’t need to provide parental leave to women.

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The United States has the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world.

Let that sink in. American women are treated as beasts of burden and forced back to work 6 — 12 weeks after giving birth. Sure, there’s a tiny wealthy minority like yourself who are doing great. But for the most part American women are not okay. They do not have the choice to take maternity leave and often pay with their lives. If you didn’t know, the United States also has the highest maternal death rates in the developed world.

American women are not okay.

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