• invertedspear@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Please take it down a notch, because I’m very much not saying it’s not a problem, nor am I ignoring the issue. I am trying to improve my understanding of people’s situations that are not my own.

    I disagree on explicitness of the statement. Saying the US does not have maternity leave is not the same, at least by my understanding, as saying “x has no minimum wage” it’s would be more like saying “x has no wage”. Taking the phrase literally, anyway, and I apparently have a tendency to be over-literal.

    And I’m not pretending anything. I know people are choosing not to have kids due to the lack of economic security. But I’ve always thought that extends well beyond what parental leave would help with. Kids are expensive and not just in year one. Even if one is guaranteed steady income in year one, it would still be a question of how assured their income will be for an indefinite amount of time.

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      3 months ago

      You’re disagreeing with facts.

      We’re not talking about your personal experience.

      The US is in the group of seven countries which do not mandate maternal let alone paternal leave.

      This is a cold hard fact: the US does not mandate that employers give the option to paid maternal leave. Unlike literally most of the planet.