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[quote=Anonymous]Ok yes, sure, dads who misuse parental leave suck and ruin it for the rest of us. But how do people not see that we set women up for being the default parent throughout their working career if we only give women maternity leave and not parental leave to all parents? In an ideal world, my husband and I would both have 14-16 weeks of leave and could stagger it so baby doesn’t have to go to daycare until much older. As it is, he got 2 weeks of leave, and so I did almost everything. He took the first week off and then a few days here and there when I was losing my mind with a colicky second. It actually really irritates me to hear people crap on parental leave. Do we think dads have no responsibility? It’s just moms that shoulder the burden? It’s not like that’s going to magically change once mom goes back to work if dad hasn’t been the primary parent for an extended amount of time.[/quote]
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