Comment on Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave

• Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Its right there in what you typed, its giving them time off. That’s what inventivizes them.

  No it isn’t. I speak from personal experience. Twice.

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• ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Would you honestly take on at least 18 years of responsibility for another human being in exchange for a couple of weeks off work? Do you seriously consider that an incentive?

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  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If I knew the goverent would support me like that I’d be more likely to have a child

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    • ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just want to be absolutely clear here, to make sure that you fully understand the question, because your answer suggests you don’t: It’s not couple of weeks a year, it’s just a couple of weeks, right at the start, and it’s not a holiday, you have to look after the baby at its most helpless during those extra weeks of leave. Are you sure that you consider a few extra weeks of looking after a child to be worth 18 years of looking after the child? Like I’m not doing a silly hypothetical where I ask if you consider yourself more or less likely to consider having a child in future, I am asking you, personally, if you will be having a child and raising it should men recieve more paternal leave.

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