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maternity and paternity leave....
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this article just states what i stated ages ago, that allowing a year of a maternity leave and only 2 weeks of paternity leave only reinforces views that women should be sole childbearers when other countries provide legally supported leave which the parents can use as they want, obviously the mother should have a few weeks after labour to recover etc but the rest should be up to the parents surely
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4327438.ece
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4327438.ece
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This is one of few cases where this country's laws have got it right.
And of course you know how every single father in the country will feel? :rolleyes: What you mean is you would be bored. I'd imagine tha the majority of couples would still have the mother as the primary carer, but not all.
Colleague at work quit about 6 months ago to be a house husband whilst he wife went back to work. He's perfectly happy, and it made a lot more sense as she earnt about twice as much as he did.
What a load of waffle.
There should be the option.
Its up to the parents to decide who goes back to work. Some parents are happy staying at home some are happy working. My mum had 18 months off work after she had me as she had a newborn and a toddler and wanted some quality time with her kids. I've also seen my dad be unemployed for long periods more then once as a kid and being a house husband while my mum worked full-time.
Two weeks paternty leave really isnt enough. More time in the first year that they can take when they want (Like the Swedish system) seems much fairer.
did you read what i wrote? the mother can take 6 months at same time as father's 6 months
or the dad can take a month and the mother 11 months and vice versa, different courses for different horses
or take none at all of course and the other 12 months if they want to
Right now two if not three guys at my workplace are on paternity leave and I think it's definitely helped make things more equal. Besides, I haven't heard any of the guys I know that have gone on paternity leave complain!
It's also great to give the parents the option to choose what suits their lifestyles and needs. Dads are important as well!
SG: Why would fathers be more bored than the mothers? The work isn't any less if the father is taking care of the kid than the mother.
That's one of the reasons it was legalised here in Iceland. I don't know of anyone, male or female, who is opposed to it now that there's some experience with it.
I agree. I was reading the BBC "Have Your Say" about it yesterday and at the time I read it the general consensus was that women of child bearing age are overlooked as a potential employee as they might go and have a baby.
Theyd be raising the baby. No more boring than the mother doing it
:yes:
Why is that strange? Personally, I would have nothing against it. If the father wants to stay at home and look after his child for a year, then I think he should. 2 weeks isn't long enough, I think.
Why? Not all men who become fathers are uninterested in having kids.
I agree as long as you do not ask me to pay for it.
It would make things even worse for businesses and the economy. They took a situation that is bad as it is, they thought how can we make things better? And they decided they'd just compound the problem by doing the same thing to the male workforce. Clever lot.
A reason which they themselves gave employers. One less reason to prefer hiring men, sure, by making matters worse than you've already made them for employers.
Are you saying thats a bad thing?
Nope.
I'm saying that this particular 'gender divide' problem is one they admit creating themselves. And while this would remove one side of the problem they've created (one less reason for employers to higher men rather than women), they wouldn't be removing the other problem which caused the divide (making business harder for employers), they would be multiplying it.
The leave rules in this country are bizarre in a lot of ways, though. I think it's disgusting that adoptive parents get nine months off too, there's no need for it to be that long given there isn't the physical exertion required in adopting someone. Their time off could be lowered to "pay" for it without harming anyone, IMHO.
I thought the man (who is the father) paid for it through work.
What about the baby? Or is it ok that they suffer?:rolleyes:
Evidently the baby would not suffer because there is someone who is concerned about that happening. Such as yourself.