If you DON'T want to have a kid, YOU pay for the abortion. Not my tax dollars and not via the insurance me, as an employer, provides for you.
WHAT has gotten into Carrie Lukas? This doesn't sound like her at all; though she IS a Mother now, so that may have changed her point of view...
Maternity leave is an issue between an employer and their employee, to be negotiated between them. There’s no need for government to be involved.
What about dads? This is clearly sexist. After all, we all know there is no real difference between men and women. /s
Well, if you want more of something, subsidize it. If we want more middle class women to have kids then this is one way to achieve it. Demographically, one could view this as a subsidy to get the sort of people who SHOULD reproduce to do so. Arguably, the long term good is greater than the short term harm.
Not that I really have an opinion either way, but if we want kids to come from families with good work ethics and two parents, etc this might be a way to help it along. Even though as a childless male I have no gain from any such policy...
The result of this ill-considered policy will be fewer women of child bearing years getting into jobs with small businesses.
I’d rather have my tax dollars going to US mom’s staying home with kids than being given to every multinational bank, every corporate-welfare project Elon Musk can dream up, the F-35 moonpig, every Sunni camel jockey, every Ukrainian nazi, every belligerent Turk, Pakistani, and North Korean we can find with their hand out. Then there’s the money we let DOD spend on helping trannies chop off their penises. Then there is the mind bending waste of the NSA Utah project, the CIA, and the vaunted FBI F-troop that never met a sedition plot they didn’t like. Wars in deep dark Africa, bringing in millions of moslems and putting em on the dole.
We waste a virtual Niagra falls of 100 dollar bills on everything under the sun....
But do something to promote moms staying home with kids, and suddenly everyone starts waving the sword of purity.
Hell, it may not be popular, but I’m for it. As for us men, no dice for you to sit home spooning mashed squash like a mommy. He needs to get his azz to the jobsite and put in a full day...like in the 1950s. The oil fields are calling.
Hell, mothers day was just yesterday, ya slugs.
Other than that, I got no strong opinion on the topic.
That’s right. If an employer wants to offer this benefit and can afford it, great! But the government shouldn’t force them to offer it.
Ftahers should be accorded the same amount of parental leave that mothers get, starting at the birth of each baby.
Parental leave is about the right to parent.
Fathers deserve an equal right to parent, just like mothers get an equal right to pursue careers.
Never heard of the idiot
They should not have paid leave.
“According to the Pew Research Center, 75 percent of Republicans”
Baloney. Its ridiculous how often Pew claims to find most Republicans always agreeing with Democrats.
As Asian who live in us for more than 28 years now I kind of have second thought on American ideals or this pursuit of happiness, personal liberty and freedom stuff. These things guide young people especially young white ladies away from family. Young ones always think of themselves first, they never have family and nation in their mind. Historically whites are majority in us they are good people and did very good building country. They are dwindling fast to minority. somewhere I read one woman should give birth to 3 baby in order for her racial group to sustain in a long run. From what I observe, whites are below the minimum birth rate. God knows what they are thinking
Discriminates against employees that don’t take time off. How about no special privileges for any self-inflicted conditions.
Thanks to the non-conservatives, jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka.
We will now have huge tax increases, so that millions of wealthy, overly paid public employees can take a year off to have a nanny take care of their kids.
Anyone advocating paid family leave is not a conservative.
But far worse is the massive child care credit that Ivanka got into the last tax bill. That is not only destructive to families, but a huge cost to taxpayers.
How about ZERO time off, and NO paid time off for maternity leave?
The total amount of time that I could take off from when my three sons were born was exactly four days total. Two of those days were unpaid call in, two were vacation days. My wife was not working at the time. Due to my work schedule, I pretty much missed out on my two youngest growing up.
If I could do it over, I would have told my employer to FOAD, and that the paycheck just wasn’t worth it.
If you want slaves, go down to the border and pick some up. At least you can have the feds subsidize their kids.
And people just can’t wrap their heads around why America is slowly devolving into mexico.
When I had my son, I received disability. I had a c-section and doctor’s orders for 8 weeks. I did not receive 100% pay, of course. I took an extra week with no pay. I had a difficult pregnancy and did have to take a few weeks off prior. Again, medically necessary. I guess I was lucky to be partially paid and alive.
Total BS.
Of course we all knew that unpaid family leave would ultimately lead to paid family leave. Just like we knew civil unions would lead to gay marriage, affirmative action would lead to quotas, feminism would lead to anti-masculinity, welfare state would lead to socialism, etc.
We are making the same mistakes that Western Europe is making, only at a much faster rate.
“Free” stuff has to be paid for by someone. Is it the business? Then it is a cost that will be managed and minimized, meaning that the most likely scenario is that expectant moms get fired.
Is it a government benefit? Then it will probably be funded by borrowing it from future generations. And we will get started now in paying interest on it, meaning even more for someone down the road to get the bill for.