China’s two-child policy is having unintended consequences

Re:China’s two-child policy is having unintended consequences by denzil_correa on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:02AM (#17643330)

> The solution to these problems IMO is to make maternity leave protected strongly by law, and make paternity leave exactly equivalent. Make no distinction by gender when it comes to maternity and paternity leave.

In Germany, there's the "parental leave" (not maternal or paternal leave) [0]. The time period is 12 months with parental allowance : 2/3rds of your income - 300 to 1800 €. If the mother and father share the parental leave, the leave extends until 14 months. Of course, there are other benefits like child care etc. [1] after the child has grown up.

[0] http://www.bamf.de/EN/Willkommen/KinderFamilie/Elterngeld/el...

[1] http://www.bamf.de/EN/Willkommen/KinderFamilie/Kinderbetreuu...

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Re:China’s two-child policy is having unintended consequences by majewsky on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:33AM (#17644271)

> If the mother and father share the parental leave, the leave extends until 14 months.

However, "sharing" in this case does not necessarily mean equal parts. The rule is "max. 14 months in total, but max. 12 months per parent". So a lot of couples end up doing 12 months maternal leave and 2 months paternal leave (not all though).

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Re:China’s two-child policy is having unintended consequences by baxtr on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @09:48AM (#17653055)

This is also my experience. However, recently I have picked up more and more cases, where both take 7 months (more or less). Maybe just a coincidence.

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Re:China’s two-child policy is having unintended consequences by dnnrly on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:57PM (#17675808)

I have a male friend that took 4 months of from memory. I'm not sure it's uncommon.

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