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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thumbs up OP. [/quote]

+1. I got 3.5 months paid leave with each kid and it’s one of the reasons I’ve stayed at this job for so long. If women are given the time to recover and bond with their babies, they are less likely to leave the workforce and companies don’t need to face costly employee turnover.[/quote]

Let’s be real. The ability (or not) to bond with your baby is not the reason most women leave the workforce. It’s almost always an issue of childcare.[/quote]

For  most professional married women, returning is a choice. They can afford childcare, but leaving an infant so early after birth feels wrong. So they quit - because they can.

Maybe they would have been ready to go back to work at 6 months, maybe 9. The thing is, finding a new job is a lot more difficult than returning to a job you already have so they end up out of the workforce even longer. Especially when you add in another child. Then what could have been a 6 month leave turns into a 6 year leave. Everyone is worse off. [/quote]

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