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...
Snort. They subsidize with one hand, paid family leave, then penalize, high prop taxes that make a larger home impossible, with the other.
Government should just get the heck off our backs and keeps its mitts out of our pockets.