No one, least of all the woman you're impregnating, made you choose an unsatisfying career. If your job is such a shitty experience each day that's on you for choosing to work there.
More like he has to bust his ass working with annoying people and never-ending deadlines, not to mention possibly in dirty and/or dangerous environments, just to support his fat wife who gave up her promising career as a secretary to sit at home and watch TV after popping out a kid, and who will take the kid away from him in case of divorce... Or do you think that work is fun, and men work because they like it?
No one, least of all the woman you're impregnating, made you choose an unsatisfying career. If your job is such a shitty experience each day that's on you for choosing to work there.
John Oliver opened this can of worms again. Not a fan of breeders so it got me whipped into a frenzy. Now I know how Fox News viewers always feel.
Of course, not our OWN children. We need to spend that money on other people's children. We need to pay people so that they can take time off to get pregnant, then pay them some more so that they can stay home while they are pregnant, then pay them some more so that they can stay home to bond with the baby.awesome!
We need more openly admission of how fucking terrible we are to ourselves. How about we own a few less stupid worthless things and spend that money to take care of children and our elderly.
awesome!
We need more openly admission of how fucking terrible we are to ourselves. How about we own a few less stupid worthless things and spend that money to take care of children and our elderly.
Of course, not our OWN children. We need to spend that money on other people's children. We need to pay people so that they can take time off to get pregnant, then pay them some more so that they can stay home while they are pregnant, then pay them some more so that they can stay home to bond with the baby.
Without reading all 17 pages of this, did anyone else get confused over the wording, "How much would an unemployed minimum wage worker receive per day?"
And I've never worked in any workplace that didn't give new mothers about 2 months of maternity leave. Companies shouldn't be forced to do it if they don't want to.
How about if you want a kid, save your money to take time off?
Liberals cant think like this. To them its foreign. To a liberal someone else should pay for choices I make.
Without reading all 17 pages of this, did anyone else get confused over the wording, "How much would an unemployed minimum wage worker receive per day?"
And I've never worked in any workplace that didn't give new mothers about 2 months of maternity leave. Companies shouldn't be forced to do it if they don't want to.
Without reading all 17 pages of this, did anyone else get confused over the wording, "How much would an unemployed minimum wage worker receive per day?"
And I've never worked in any workplace that didn't give new mothers about 2 months of maternity leave. Companies shouldn't be forced to do it if they don't want to.
awesome!
We need more openly admission of how fucking terrible we are to ourselves. How about we own a few less stupid worthless things and spend that money to take care of children and our elderly.
Holy cow, not sure if the BBC is accurate or not, but it appears that in the US, our attitude is "fuck the children. Screw families. Profit profit profit."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22688596 Just one more reason wealth keeps getting concentrated at the top.
The far-right mentality as represented by michal1980 in a nutshell. If you get pregnant, even if by accident or rape, regardless of the condition of the fetus, you MUST carry it to term. Then once born, all social services that might assist should be rescinded and no paid maternity leave. And THAT'S how you be pro life and pro family!
Speaking as a parent, I can verify the "fuck the children, screw families, profit profit profit" attitude is accurate across most companies, though not all (e.g., Google, Facebook).
Some countries not only have paid maternity leave, but paid paternity leave as well, on the grounds that studies have found that it helps child development to have both parents around.
Some people say that maternity and paternity leave should be FORCED, because if you don't, then in practice you have only women taking the time off and the men being too afraid to take time off for fear of looking soft. That undermines the intent of such programs.
P.S. Ugh I guess someone necro'd the thread and I replied before checking the dates. Sorry. Also, there's a lot of narrow self-interest in this thread. Here's a clue: kids with more parental attention are less likely to grow up in to the thug who mugs you, among other things. Babies who are breastfed tend to do better as well, and that's harder to do without any maternity leave.
If you want to support new parents that's fine, but let the government pay for it rather than the employer. There's no reason why a new parent should be collecting a paycheck from an employer they're doing no work for, and accruing seniority to compete with peers whose own productivity gets dragged down after needing to assume the work of people out on maternity leave.
That would be the federal minimum.
...then why did the BBC say we didn't give paid maternity leave if that's the federal minimum?