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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No and I also find it frustrating. I have 4 kids who I had before my employer, the federal government, offered any paid parental leave. By the last 2 I was out of sick and annual balances so I took unpaid leave for just  8 weeks after a difficult birth because we really couldn’t afford anything more. The men who announce their 12 weeks of paid bonding time make me extremely resentful.[/quote]

You are making the classic mistake of directing your anger to the wrong party.  Your employer is the one who screwed you, not the men who are using a benefit that men have been denied since the beginning of time.  [/quote]

Maybe men have been denied parental leave since the beginning of time because they didn’t do much to become parents and aren’t physically recovering from giving birth. Bonding is a nice thing to do, I’d love to bond with my kids for the next 12 weeks but my employer shouldn’t have to pay for it and my coworkers shouldn’t have to absorb my job duties for that period. I don’t think men deserve parental leave.[/quote]

Bonding with  an infant is feeding, diaper changing, trying to soothe crying, and trying to get the baby to sleep.  It’s not a vacation [/quote]

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