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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Relationsh... by tomp on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:13PM (#12810224)
But this is something the society (i.e. the government) should take care of, not individual companies (that might, but likely won't, benefit from future offspring). For example, by sponsoring companies that hire workers that have kids (or otherwise levelling the playing field between non-parents and (less-productive) parents in economic terms).
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Relationsh... by Broken_Hippo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:08PM (#12810734)
I agree that society and the government should take care of it, but I disagree on the methods.

I'm all for laws giving parents leeway to have extra time off to take care of kids, job protections for maternity/paternity leave, even the government chipping in for the extra days. Of course, I think everyone should be entitled to sick days - jsut parents have more.

You know, because they have more responsibility than I do - which actually makes parents more productive overall than someone like me it. It just doesn't all show at work.

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