Would you like to have that in America, and do you think it will ever happen? Paid leave!
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I think I am moving to Sweden!! LOL
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I had an assignment on that in my Soc class. I was amazed to see how much of a value Sweden put on families. It is kinda sad that America is such a selfish country that only cares about making money and material items. I highly doubt America will be that family oriented again, let alone give women paid leave!
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i think, in our country that wouldn't work at all. if mothers could have an 18-months paid leave, our work force will crash down.
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Yes I did know that. And the citizens pay roughly 60% income tax for the privilege. I doubt Americans would go for that!
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18 months compared to my 12 weeks unpaid FMLA (after using up your vacation and sick leave) sounds like heaven. If they increase the paid leave I doubt if we would get any where close to 18 months.
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I wouldn't want it. There are already enough women having babies to get money or mooch. Think about how many welfare moms are out there, constantly popping out kids just to live off the system. I think 18 months paid leave would just make matters worse. Sweden has an entirely different system in place compared to the US. Alot of European countries are having problems with keeping the birthrate up, so this could have been put into place to encourage more births.
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I think it's wonderful. Although I highly doubt the US would adopt such a policy. Motherhood in the US is seen as a "labor of love" and a "choice" and not the hard and IMPORTANT job it is. Mothers (and fathers) today are raising the leaders of tomorrow (sounds cheesy, but completely true). I think it's terrible that such a powerful nation like ours essentially throws new parents under the bus when it comes to raising their children and being able to provide them a good life. 6-8 weeks of leave after a birth (AND it is NOT always paid leave!) is entirely too little. Don't even get me started on the poor childcare in the US, we could be here all day. Thanks for posting this.
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wow I want to move there now!
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ughhhh no fair!! I would love to have that!!! I doubt it will ever be standard in the US maybe with certain companies but not many. Hope I am wrong though!
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Dang I would love that, I'm taking 6 weeks unpaid and that's gonna put a strain on my job as is.
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Would I like it? Yes. Would it ever happen? Definitely not.
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this would have been useful info 2yrs ago when i was pregnant i would have moved asap
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Yes I knew, and I am forever jealous. Ive always wanted to move to europe and that could just be the push I needed to do it. :)
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It will never happen. Corporate greed will always win out, unfortunately. Norway gives the same thing but I think it goes up to 2 years. Most other industrialized nations even have more vacation days etc and they have a better quality of life compared to ours.
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I know, doesn't it sound lovely? I would be all for this even though I'm long past child bearing years. The one thing I will say, as I always tend to look at both sides of a story, is that abuse frightens me. I see women with 7 children (each with a different dead beat father), who continue to have children they can not afford because it increases their benefits. I see women who deliberately get pregnant with a child they don't really want so they can use the child as an excuse to stay at home. None of these children are raised in the nurturing environment they deserve because they're merely a tool. In our society I'm sure some women would abuse this as any system and have a child in order to get a paid 18 month "vacation." Problem is, they would be very unhappy when they found that caring for a newborn is not a vacation and the child would be the one to suffer. That being said I don't think EVERY mother should be punished because of those who would abuse the system just as I don't think welfare should be discontinued because abuse is rampant nor disability discontinued because of the high level of abuse there. Something needs to be done to monitor the programs we do have in place. If that was done, the savings might allow us to help some of the Americans who fall through the cracks and suffer with no assistance at all.
