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Interesting Piece in the Washington Post...
(I put it through TinyURL because the string was so long.
How Joe Biden can help working parents
https://preview.tinyurl.com/27gb6am
Sharon Meers is co-author of Getting to 50/50: How working couples can have it all by sharing it all. A former managing director at Goldman Sachs, she now works in Silicon Valley.
My twins are 5! My baby is 3!
DS#2 - Allergic to Cashew, Pistachio, Kiwi
DS#3 - Allergic to Milk, Egg, Peanut, Tree Nuts and Sesame
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Re: Interesting Piece in the Washington Post...
My response to my local board about this article (I'm a Fed):
The comment section - yikes! Bitter folks!
Being a working mom is hard, and it's tiring. I don't know that Joe Biden is going to do anything to make that any different. I'd love to have some paid maternity leave, but I also know that the people who have no sympathy for "working women who chose to have kids - you made your bed, now lie in it!" will likely never let that happen.
My twins are 5! My baby is 3!
DS#2 - Allergic to Cashew, Pistachio, Kiwi
DS#3 - Allergic to Milk, Egg, Peanut, Tree Nuts and Sesame
Some of those comments just didn't make any sense. I think that for hourly type employees, something needs to be done, but I do kind of resent efforts to take tax dollars to "shore up" someone in a two income family making $75K or more a year who just "can't afford to take time off", yet can afford to spend $$$$ on a nursery and a $300 car seats.
A lot of the stats and findings in that article are also counter to other things I have read. I think most of it is really just the opinion of Meers, who lives in the same neighborhood as this ridiculousness about parenting came from.