Why Do New Dads Need 6 Weeks Off Work?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmk07jyjmxo

 

[davebro3]

erm - dunno 🙄

[pastafreak]

Why not? Why shouldn't both parents be entitled to spend the first few weeks with their new infant...to bond and care for it?

Or is that too woke for your sensibilities. 

[ToraToraTora]

why? I can understand the mother having maternity leave to get established with the new baby. The dad's job is to keep earning and supporting. 

[youngmafbog]

Nothing wrong with it - providing I dont have to pay for it.  And that includes companies being forced to pay it which in turn means me paying indirectly.

TTT is correct, men are the hunter gatherers, women nurture.  It's what both do best (in the main before the usual start).

[naomi24]

They don't.  Depending upon how it's paid it's either an unnecessary burden on the public purse or on the employer. 

[barry1010]

I'd have loved 6 weeks off with my babies, I did have to take three weeks off work when one of my children was born because my wife was very ill in hospital. Unpaid, of course.

[Quenched]

If both parents had 6 weeks off work imagine the impact that would have on an employer however big or small. 

 

 

[Canary42]

It's for bonding, you bloody neanderthals - go back to living in caves where you belong.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - Either you don't have children, or you are living in the past.

These days, dads like to bond with their babies as they should.

[barry1010]

In Sweden, parents 480 days of paid parental leave between them.  They can divide it how they like  (but each much take 90 days off)  and they can either take it all before the child is 18 months old or spread it out until the child starts school at 6.

Estonia gives 30 days, paid; Japanese fathers can take 30 weeks, paid.

Makes our statutory 2 weeks for fathers seem positively draconian.

[davebro3]

hm - I wonder how many taking so much time off just lose their work ethic...

[gramps85]

15.56, 16.07.  Dad's have been bonding with their children for centuries, while carrying on with being the bread winner.   I know I did and have a very close and loving relationship with my kids.

[ToraToraTora]

I see the trobscites have chimed in with their predicatble retorts! I have children and we are bonded very well. I didn't need 6 weeks of trendy nappy changing rowlocks both my sons seem to have manage very well without it. 

If they want to have 6 weeks off fawing about with no pay then fine but no employer should have to fund this rubbish.

[Old_Geezer]

Can't they bond on their own time/resources ? It shouldn't  be the employers' responsibility to fund them.  Or the rest of us for that matter, starting a family was their personal decision. If they wish to be there why can't half the mother's maternity leave be transferred ?

[bednobs]

They don't "need" it, but it would be nice. My daughter was born 10 weeks early and my husband wasn't entitled to any paternity leave. While our daughter was in the NICU for seven weeks my husband had to drop me at the hospital, go to work, come sit by the incubator for a few hours then go and eat, sort the dogs an then come pick me up. It was an awful time for all of us but especially him. Six weeks of would have been great!

[pastafreak]

"trendy nappy changing rowlocks"...is that what your exhausted wife called it?

Everyone focuses on money...what about the good it does for new parents and for families. And next you'll be saying that families aren't the same anymore...

...oh wait 🤔🙄

[DDIL]

His exhausted wife wouldn't have been allowed to talk without permission!

[ToraToraTora]

18:19 untwist the alans treacle, you know nothing of me and err indoors so keep your beak out. 

[ToraToraTora]

Always make me laugh, just because I don't agree with the trobiscite wokestapo rowlocks it's ok to insult me. 

[DDIL]

Awright wassak!