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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by souprock on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:19PM (#22251911)
From another comment, it looks like the father only gets half, but I assume you get weekends off too. Sweden also has 25 days of vacation.

I have a kid about every 600 days. (have 12 so far) Out of that 600 days, it looks like I'd work just 164 days. It would be 2-day weeks for decades.

That is quite a way to run a country. I think it only works because there are very few births in Sweden.

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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by istjohn on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:46PM (#22252092)
Basing policy on 99.99 percentile sized families would certainly be odd.
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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by souprock on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:24PM (#22252680)
Policy would change what the 99.99 percentile is. If having a large family means that you don't have to work, many more people might do it.
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