Posts by pek64

Another point is that some people are more lingual than others. My father's parents never learned English after moving to the US. Actually, his mother learned a smattering. The children had to speak two languages, one in the home,...

Are you saying the US is NOT a developed country? Have you polled people in those 42 other countries? No one said a woman gets an extra 8 weeks just because her ankles swelled! You are twisting my words. It makes sense that a person...

Are you saying the US is NOT a developed country? Have you polled people in those 42 other countries? No one said a woman gets an extra 8 weeks just because her ankles swelled! You are twisting my words. It makes sense that a person...

Why would the child be getting sent to daycare 8 weeks early because the *dad* took paid leave? That argument doesn't make sense to me. You'll have to explain what you mean by that. Mothers and fathers rarely work for the same company....

A mother struggling with breastfeeding issues should be able to get additional leave. Unlike a bottle, which alternative caregivers can give, breastfeeding issues such as latch problems or low supply need the specific person, the mother,...

60 weeks -- that's 15 months! More than a year! Where do you work? Lots of women will be wanting to work there!

The amount of leave is not bought by a difficult pregnancy or birth. Those *are* physical things, however, and the woman *may* need the additional time to recover. No, adoptive parents would only be entitled to 8 weeks, by my argument,...

If you were where I live I could tell you. I looked it up when my son was young. Try researching it, or contacting an attorney, if you don't get the answer here. I would think, at the very least, the children would get a say in court...

When I asked why should fathers get more leave, I did not mean more than the mothers. I meant more than the 8 weeks being offered. And, as I said, not just because of breastfeeding. Mothers are recovering physically from pregnancy and...

I lived where the water supply was a municipal well. We received reports on how our well water tested on various toxins, and the acceptable levels. I didn't keep the reports, so I don't know what all was being checked, but there was more...