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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most sahm who aren’t wealthy (still the majority) would openly admit they wished job reentry was easier or that both parents had European style leave options.

The problem is that most wohm will not admit anything is wrong because doing so suggests their own child was in a less-than-ideal setup. They need to give an inch and admit that these choices we’re left with are bad for children and for most mothers!

[b]There is no reason why a typical professional woman shouldn’t be able to take a year off ([/b]keeping current with occasional shifts if necessary) each kid and re-enter. None. Same for dads. But it will take bridging this enormous gap and working together. [/quote]

This ignores the fact that if you want to be home with a child until age 1, you likely want to be home for many years.  Most women who stay home with babies are NOT interested in returning to work when the child turns one.

The reality is that the majority of mothers in America want a strong economy so they don’t have to work at all.

Most American women don’t want the government to pay them $300 a week to stay home with their babies and then return at year one or two. Most women either don’t want to work at all for many years, or they value their career and prefer to work than stay home.

European parental leave is a result of many cultural differences and structural factors such as

- lower wages that require a woman to receive government assistance to stay home with a baby

- generous government services that would typically pay for childcare and it is less expensive to pay a woman $250 a week to stay home

- sexist societies that expect women to take years off work to stay home with kids but then expects them to return to work

-cultures where even wealthy women have separate finances from their spouses and are not provided for after birth so the government has to step in

I could go on….

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