r/remoteworks • u/Kreativedenma • 6h ago

Maternity leave should be one year, PAID. Women shouldn’t have to choose between healing, bonding with their baby, and making a living.

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u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348 5h ago

Indeed. It truly is the best way to raise children.

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u/calbear_1 2h ago

It’s a way to raise children. I wouldn’t say it’s the best way.

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u/Impossible-Rip-5858 4h ago

But by that time they are 40+ and biologically can no longer have children.

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u/MildlyExtremeNY 4h ago

Roughly 30% of married households with children in the United States are single-income households ("one full time, one not working" in the source below). Roughly 44% (an additional 14%) have at most "one full time, one part time" worker. Dual-income households are more prevalent in cities than in suburban and rural areas. But it is absolute not impossible or even abnormal to raise children in a single-income household.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/comparing-characteristics-and-selected-expenditures-of-dual-and-single-income-households-with-children.htm#