Soft power. People can't believe the US is what it is having seen all these entertaining movies, tv series etc. Also, we should remember that this propaganda is mainly aimed at Americans themselves.
Fundi Nkuta The US has never been the best. It's just something that we are told from the time we are a child. The schools teach you that. Politicians teach you that. When I was in college I took a course called abnormal sociology. You have to take regular sociology first. Everyone should have to take those two classes because they will see the world in a completely different way. The Scandinavian countries particularly Sweden have been known as the best county for many decades. I am American and I am grateful to get the things that American has to offer but I also know that America is not the best. Did you know that our school system was also the worst? Europeans finish school at around age 16 and when they graduate they will be so much more educated then then in America. In America lots of classes are not mandatory and are "dumbed down" for kids to pass. In other countries it is mandatory to graduate knowing calculus, chemistry, physics. All classes that in America that are not mandatory. The list of differences in the school systems go on. Social issues we are way behind. I could talk about this forever.
rachel langley What does that have to do with America not having paid leave? Why should women have to go back to work WEEKS after giving birth? It's bullshit.
Did she seriously say that if women get paid maternity leave, it'll reduce their chances of getting a job when they are in "child bearing age"?!?! What the hell is child bearing age? Like 16-45? Okay guys, just don't hire any woman between the ages of 16-45. I live in Canada, and women of "child bearing age" can get jobs just fine.
She was thinking under the assumption that the employers pay out of pocket for that. Yeah of course that doesn't work, that is why payed maternity leave is provided by government, not employers.
@Entity51 It is called paternity leave and is implemented in civilized countries. That excludes shithole countries like the usa. By the way, the usa also has the highest death rate of women giving birth than any other developed country.
I heard from multiple ppl to take off my ring when looking for a job...that way they don't think you are married and are of child bearing age..in U.S. :) yup. Crazy
Neil Mcinnis If you get your way, when you're old and sick, there'll be no doctors and nurses to care for you. You didn't want to pay for the kids who were born while you were a working member of society, to go to elementary school, so they couldn't become medical professionals.
that makes 0 sense. pro life is about not killing an unborn child, what happens after is not about life and death it's about how comfy your life is. If u can't afford to upkeep a child don't have one or face the consequences. not hard to grasp
pro-life is against abortion, therefore if you get pregnant, by pro-life's beliefs, you have no option to not have the baby, whether you are in the position to be able to provide for it or not
I want to add that here in Canada the woman and the man get 6 months each and the father can give his wife his, allowing her to stay home for a year. The pay is roughly 66% of your full salary. We do not pay outrageous tax either.
First, all the Canadian workers are paid a lower salary. That's a given. The employer gets less work from the average worker because some of them take time off and still get paid. So to compensate everyone gets paid less. Second, everyone ends up paying taxes to run the bureaucracy to create, maintain and enforce these arbitrary government rules. That's also a given. Throw in the fact that the whole system is involuntary and based on force and violence to implement and you can see it's a lose-lose situation for everyone.
If the Parliament of Canadia dropped the corresponding law, thus taken the cost of missing employees off the employers, wages wouldn't rise. The money would go into the company's bottom line. That's a given.
Ben Jamin Not really. In a free market that simply could not happen. Of course Canada isn't a free market. Only through the magic of government regulation and monopolies could something like that happen. But your position is based on the absurd notion that business can simply offer any wage they choose. This is obviously false or else they would all be offering zero. What I said is logically correct.
Then they want to say things like "we need women to have kids to support the workforce" and try to restrict BC and abortions as much as possible. Yet when it comes to actually supporting people when they have kids, nothing but the wind is there.
right!!! i paused the video to have a good rant. what an extremely false equivalent on every level. societies would stop existing if babies stopped being born, not to mention that kids are a lifetime fucking commitment...
Yea, I would happily pay more tax if that means a mother doesn't have to bury their child. My hole hearted sympathy to that mother who lost her son, Carl.
We don’t need to pay more taxes, bgovernment must spend less or nothing on outrageous projects, stop helping other countries because those countries are poor( regular people in those countries would not profit from out donations, but their rich politicians would), reduce salaries for Congress and Senate, they must literally be public servants, not enriched lobbyists. A smart person could find TONS os money but deep state isn’t interested in young mothers or their babies, it all about greed and power.
“Hard4Jesus” is it? I said what I said. I’m sorry you have a limited understanding of 1. who actually does hard work and 2. what happens to the taxes collected from the American workforce. The cost of not having paid parental leave in America reduces our earning capacity as a whole. The American people pay enough in taxes while multiple companies that billions of revenue dollars per year pay little to no taxes/ are heavily subsidized by the government. My cognitive abilities weren’t retarded during development you see, I developed like humans are supposed to, with common sense, empathy, and understanding for others. As someone who is “HardforJesus”, I’d think you’d see that, but clearly not. America doesn’t have a revenue problem. You believe that this is not worthy of your tax dollars because you’ve been taught to think so, when in fact, the money is already coming in, and we (nationally) choose to spend it on other things. That is the truth. The fact that someone is willing to give even more of her hard earned money to prevention is gracious and I choose to support that though it is not necessary, because America makes enough to take care of its people. It’s not a surprise that social security (which 65 million Americans rely on) and public education (which all Americans rely on) is failing, now we see the “family values” side of our society crumbling. But you keep harassing people on the internet for caring.
candii10 I know. It's just like, "have any of you ever traveled? Yes? Have you studied other countries' policies? Not really? How unsurprising, it appeared so."
When I stayed home for one day with my two year old because he was sick, I was fired immediately when I returned to my executive training program the next day. This is now illegal. Now I'm a lawyer and I work for myself. I give my employees generous benefits because it's the best way to keep them and avoid the expense of replacing them, hiring and training new employees and making the workplace easier to enjoy. They work harder, they work extra in a crunch, and we're like a family.
IT IS IMMORAL TO STEAL FROM AN EMPLOYER AND FORCE THEM TO PAY SOMEONE NOT TO WORK. I WOULD GO BANKRUPT BEFORE ALLOWING A COMMUNIST/LIBERAL GOVERNMENT TO ROB MY BUSINESS. LAWYERS ARE THIEVES SO CAN AFFORD TO GIVE HANDOUTS
@@jimbritttn you serious telling me you going to fire a mother just because their child was sick and they needed to stay home with them? I hope your business dies
@@ningning5500 forcing a business to pay someone that isn't earning the money is THIEFT and only 3rd world lazy people would demand it. WOMEN SHOULD BE RAISING THEIR CHILD, NOT PAYING STRANGERS TO DO IT.
I might never be married or have a child, but I strongly support maternity leave. I want to know that mothers and fathers are getting the time they deserve to co parent their new borns, and that for mothers especially, they do not have to choose between family and work.
first of all, i just stated that it wouldn't be for me. but if I ever choose to have a child, I believe in a society where parents are supported, because even if I were to never have a child, when we are older, we are supported by the younger generation. So to answer your question, tax is for the general population, not just for whatever is more convenient for one sector of society.
TheBluesytone I don't think you have any idea how much harm and suffering this concept brings. In America, we have conclusively found that when society bears the cost of raising children, it takes away the consequences of people's action. Young women sleep around, making babies with multiple fathers. Neither the mothers or the fathers care because society is forced to absorb the costs. In fact, the women view child birth as a cash cow because they get more money for every child. So they have lot's of children they don't really want. The children grow up unloved, in broken families with no fathers and their likelihood of incarceration is like doubled. It is critical not to take away the negative consequences of people's actions.
@Psyborg 0009 Dude, if she didnt make any money and kept the kid then he would be poor as hell and have a very difficult life, giving up your child to hopefully give him a bettrr life is hard
@Psyborg 0009 And not everybody has all the time in the world. She trusted it them and they broke it. Your telling me every single person you've trusted jas kept their word?
I had no idea how the system in the US worked. I'm Swedish and take maternity leave "for granted". As you said in the video, I think paid leave is what all parents deserve! :)
+Frida's Friday Sweden is a tiny and rich country and we can not afford same things Sweden offer. only immigrants have kids in Sweden anyway and also Sweden is a very feminist society. Sweden offers all the programs bcs the local population is not having kids anymore
+Lefebvre Julien Totally agree :) Size of population has nothing to do with if it can be done or not, since these things are funded by tax payers, aka the "population".
I honestly think the US can do this, We need to fund this with public assistant money since if this continues some women will be on it anyway. It's a state issue however.
Three month leave is a joke. In Europe, Eastern block, which is not considered so good to live as i.e. Germany women get 1 year paid leave and if you're jobless you get benefits. It doesn't mean that women are lazy or don't work. We consider children our future. Each one of us were child before. All the best to all mothers and fathers. 🌸
If you think 3 months of a joke try 2 weeks. I work for a State Farm insurance agent as an office manager, have no benefits (health, life disability insurance) and have 2 weeks of maternity leave.
Yes Germany has longer maternity leave. But lack of appropriate child care makes it almost impossible for women to return to the work force full time. Add to it German tax policy that makes it economically unprofitable to work for married women (Ehegattensplitting). And at the end is situation no better then in the US. It is a bad idea to have children in Germany for women. That is why the birth rate is so low.
Paternity leave is important too! My husband used all of his earned vacation days to be home with us for one week. It takes more than a week to bond with your baby and care for your wife who had a c-section. We are also using all of our savings in order for me to stay home for 6 weeks. My company does not have 50 employees so they don't have to honor FMLA. I'm blessed to work for good people who let me have 6 weeks unpaid leave. My dream would be to stay home for 6 months. He's our 1st baby 😢
Anna Nowogorski i paused and went “ Did she really just compare raising a hold to a hobby?” I was thinking it is one of the most important jobs a person will do in their life time it is far from a hobby
@@katlinoneill2497 It's a job her nannies will do for her. To her, having kids *is* similar to having a hobby. Only doing the fun stuff, none of the actual childrearing.
@@katlinoneill2497 The only people who are forced to have children, are male victims of reverse rape. As long as abortion is legal, women have superior control over whether they become pregnant (compared to the control men have), and have 100% control over whether they remain pregnant. It may take two to tango, but remember, Roe v Wade says it is WHO'S body WHO'S choice? It is not something that is mandatory for you to do, and it is not essential for your survival. Having children is something you do by choice, for fulfillment in your life. And it is something that is not of any immediate economic value to people outside your family. That is why it is comparable to a hobby.
@@carultch I disagree. At first, I was going to agree that you had a point that children may not offer an *immediate* economic benefit to society, but after thinking about even that point for two more minutes, I disagree. Children are a HUGE consumer market for companies (link with many sources: globalissues.org/article/237/children-as-consumers), with billions of money spent on advertisement. They also provide 100% of the audience/consumers of infant & child healthcare, daycare, private or charter schooling, etc. So no - there is pretty much an immediate economic benefit for children to exist. I'd actually argue that a child has a greater *economic* value to those outside its family than those in its family (because it's not like a baby or a child make money for that family; in fact, they cost money - so it's a negative economic value, strictly speaking, to have a child and then support that child until that child can become a self-sustaining individual). Also, overall, it's imperative for a society to maintain its population if it wants to maintain or grow its economy. Google "economic dangers of population decline" (specifically, Russia, Japan, and Germany I believe have the worst cases of an ageing population) for sources and evidence of this (there's simply too much for me to put in a RUclips comment). A government that cares about its economy should have a vested interest in making sure people can reproduce. That's why it's nonsensical and outright destructive to view having children as a hobby. Children (who then become working and culture-producing adults) are the literal future of a society. If there are no (or too few) children, within a few decades (literally only just *decades*), there will be no more of that society. It will cease to exist.
Traditional lifestyle all but eliminated these 'hard life' issues in the past, when we broke from old traditions this is what we were left with. Gold diggers are shitty people, they don't value people, they value money, not a good long term strategy for life long relationships, women value a guy for what he brings to the table i.e. (Briffaults law)resources or good genes at the end of the day its not romantic, biology says "its just business".. be honest if you were a guy and you knew a woman only liked you because you had money would you be fine with it that means when you run out she runs out too.. at least with the guy he thinks you are physically attractive, he cant separate you from your beauty its a packaged deal...
@@40stryder03 Yeah, "traditional lifestyles" where women were bartered like sheep and had no rights to decide what kind of life they wanted for themselves. Believe it or not, other countries manage to have gender equality without the burdens the shitty USA leaves it's citizens to deal with.
@@sashatheelf It wasn't perfect, but economically/socially/emotionally speaking our traditions were much more stable than the one's we currently have now. In the past the avg man could work and pay for a family off one income, now 2 people have to struggle just to get by; leaving the child/children to raise themselves. Now millenials will not be able to have savings, children or families, yippie?,also the countries with "gender equality" have problems of their own (iceland, sweden low birth rate, will likely not exist in a generation or two if they don't change the trend, and the women are being raped by immigrants), the sexes will never be able to have equality, it is a pipe dream. you say women were bartered like sheep? what do you think the men were? they were used as cannon fodder on senseless political squabbles, pick your poison I guess, as long as your not going off of that women were oppressed by men narrative fed by feminist who want to castrate men and destroy the nuclear family, I'll meet you in the middle on the issues of women in the past, but the reality is life was hard for both man and woman in the past.
@@40stryder03 If you prefer the old model of caretaker+homemaker, I suggest you find a strong woman to look after you and the children you plan to raise at home. If you are unhappy with being used as a pawn in the military, vote for Bernie. Cheers.
Cut military spending and you might be able to take care of your people like European nations do. (Low/free education, health care/insurance, maternity leave.. Etc. etc.) I'm sorry but America is overdoing this individuality/American dream thing where even the most vulnerable are left to fend for themselves because they'll just have to "work for it" or "work harder".
S S we are free. That means we debate and if Congress wants to bring paternity leave they may bring it. There is only one way to approach this that is through speech.
@@Abhi_d1998 YES WE ARE FREE WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS But we don't have the right to maternity leave and healthcare. Hmm I think USA priorities are in the wrong place.
This is why I don't understand pro-life people who protest in front of abortion clinics because they put so much effort into shaming the woman instead of stopping the things that made her go there in the first place like abstinence-only sex-ed and unpaid family leave
+Ayanyaj Sivart They cause the problems that want to prevent. What I want to know or understand is if any of them even remotely understand how hypocritical they are?
Evil Bastard Why don't you offer support instead of shame. Do you know if the mother was raped or abused. Are you gonna pay for daycare or possibly pay the bills if the mother has to give up her job? Are you gonna be by her side if the father is not. I'm not pro abortion either only in certain circumstances like illness but I understand why it's done.
+Evil Bastard As you can see in the beginning of the documentary, the ones who are murdering babies are pro-lifers who refuse to go to congress and protest for paid maternity and paternity leave. AKA, you.
Evil Bastard So youd rather a baby be born into an unstable enviornment or simply thrown into the system? Both of which often cause server mental trauma and often leads those children into lives of crime or into domestic abuse? Those kids that never feel loved or wanted and go through their lives suffering? More times than not there is a reason why the parents dont want their babies..either they arent financially ready, or they are in a bad situation be that drugs or domestic abuse. To force a child to be born into such a cruel world without the support or love of their family is more wrong than terminating them. And while some people will choose to keep them and struggle to raise them, no one wants to help those people out. Heck, government wants to cut those programs that help lower income families..and I dont see pro lifers rallying for better acess to medical care, food or shelter for low income families..I dont see them protesting education budget cuts that mainly affect low income areas. Its hyprocritical to fight for life and then let these kids go on to struggle during their childhoods.
I grow up without a father and my mother soon moved out after other man and i was left with my grandmother and grandfather, and i'm still very grateful for being able to come into this world. If you take a decision to murder your child because you think "she would rather not born into the world" you are just making excuses to be free of your responsibilities.
Heritage Foundation lady is ridiculous, "Great, to take 3 months or a year off & I hope you come back"?! SMH... That's beyond any scope of how it works in real life, they would either be struggling at home if given the time without pay, or wouldn't even have the job to come back to... 😕
+Brutus Tan YOU, as a company owner, are a citizen just like the woman is. The only one dumb and entitled is you, expecting to get all of the benefits when you're not the only citizen in the scenario. And no, your company is no excuse, because your company is a non-entity, a non-citizen, and not entitled to rights or consideration. If you do not benefit the population at large, including your own employees, then you have no use for the nation at large.
Brutus Tan don’t ever have children...you sound like a selfish heartless asshole...really? Why should a women who just gave birth get special privileges? Really? That’s a ridiculous statement...giving birth is not an easy process...
guys complain that its mot equal taht woman get maternity leave but for real do you guys give birth ? hell no do you guys carry the baby for 9 months ? hell to the no so they need it
Our children are our future. Paying for paid parental leave will benefit Americans in the long run by creating strong family bonds, which are virtually nonexistent now. It states right in the video which im guessing you didn't watch that parents end up on welfare which costs the public more. "Being stupid enough to get knocked up" You do realize that having babies is a necessity for the country's future right? I don't know why you have such a cold attitude being that you yourself are a mother. Not every pregnancy is butterflies and rainbows, recovery from a c-section takes time, much more than two days.
And we wonder why we have dysfunctional kids (i.e. school shooters). Maybe we should look more closely at the effects of infants not being able to bond the way they need.
Both paid maternity and paternity leave should be recognized and mandatory. This actually helps to combat the wage gap amongst genders because employers cannot use the potentiality of having a child as a hiring bias. As a counter point, this could lead to employers having a bias based on marital/relationship status.
naturegirl2110 well he's right your not going work, so paying you for doing no work would make no sense. Companies wouldn't be able to support themselves if they started paying coworkers who didn't show up at all. But for shame , they should pay mothers who chose to have kids ,so know what yeah companies should pay them and whiles their at also pay homeless people. That'll be great.
Mikayla Anisha And that's the problem with our society every man for himself gets very few men to the top and the rest are left poor. There is no more middle class which strangle families and in turn strangled society. When few have jobs eveyone pays. You pay for their healthcare, living exepnses, food, security force because of increased crime etc. You don't pay one way you will pay the other. Every man for himself nobody wins. I used to look down on welfare people not anymore. Most don't want to be on welfare but when starting from zero and you do get a job welfare taken away. Your paycheck is less than welfare what do they do quit and go right back to welfare. Take care of families, give women their 3 months PAID maternity leave and we will all be better for it.
naturegirl2110 well that's life of being an adult . if you can't handle it live with parents. life doesn't stop because you can't pay the bills, and yes I will acknowledge that welfare can be beneficial in some situations but it shouldn't be used excessively like most people do. forcing hard working people to pay for your bills isn't fair . especially since the ones paying for the welfare and other government benefits are the working class. why should their money go to someone who is entitled like these women? they choose to have children ,they know the responsibilites of having children if they don't live under the means to have children they shouldn't have children . then they won't have to deal with the financial issues later on. but that's the issue with this society today no one plans head, and they're so entitled in expecting others to compensate for them after they screw up. well you know what a huge percent of people are tired of compensating for entitled people like these women in the video and won't stand for their shit anymore .if they're so independent they can handle it themselves, and leave our hard work alone.
Sam Jacques there is no wage gap though. They don't take into account everything, they only look at broad statistics. Men work more hours so they're going to make more.
_simply.s Actually, "Scandinavian policies" are destroying their host countries. Sweden is about to obliterate itself. Socialism and welfare have always been dead ends.
mr south What planet do you live on? On Earth, countries collapse exclusively because of excessive socialism. All countries that turn up the free market prosper and all countries that turn up socialism stagnate or collapse. Furthermore, there isn't one bit of logic in socialism unless you support slavery. All logic points to a free market providing the maximum possible prosperity.
To say that "no one is doing it better than America does" is just plain ignorant. It's so sad that these people can be so brainwashed to think that paid maternity leave "hurts women"...
@@redexduke9023 Oh shut up! If a man had to take some time off for an injury or illness before returning to work, I bet you wouldn't automatically say he's not "hard working". There are plenty of hard working mothers out there. The average person isn't going to miss a boat load of "work opportunities" taking off a max of 6 months. Plenty of other post-industrial countries do that and MORE and still have happy and productive citizens - or are you just so sexist and myopic to see that harming the family unit ultimately harms society at large?
Americans generally have never worked overseas. As an Australian who has worked in the USA for several years, as well as Canada and the UK, American does everything backwards and stupidly.
I live in Romania, we have 1year and 11 months paid maternity leave, and 1 month the father! Cant believe such a developed country dont have maternity leave! So Sad
exactly!all over the world even developing nations have a minimum of three months to 6 months paid maternity and paternity leave thats how a good government works why get rid of a good worker because they had children how does that correlate to a developed nation!!
In my country, mothers are required to take at least 8 weeks. Not allowed, required. At least 3 weeks before and 5 weeks after, with up to 16 weeks for everyone, and companies generally give even more benefits. This isn't a small government vs socialist issue. It's a public health issue.
its interesting how the Swedish man said that people ussually come back to sweden when they have kids because its "not worth it". ive had the same thought. Ive lived in new york my whole life but i was born and i am a finnish citizen and honestly i look around at my family there with kids and my friends here with kids and i would much rather drop my life here to have a better life not only for my kids, but for me .
If you ever do have children, I would encourage you to return to Finland, they have the #1 education program in the world! I would have given anything to have educated my children in Finland rather than pay $20k per year per child at a top notch private school!
I am so sorry for Amber for losing her child. I have a niece that was born in December 2015 and I can only imagine such a horrific thing. My sister chose to give up the job and stay at home. How on earth can a 3 month old baby be put in day care? Truth is we are slaves to the system and the system is not for the people.
Same. I had to place my son in daycare changed three times. Im home now and have him in therapy worse decision. Although i had the option of maternity leave the fun had just begun. The daycares in the states def need a clean up. Im so scared to place in him child care now.
I cannot imagine leaving a three month old with strangers. I once read a case of a young baby being asphyxiated by one of the day workers boyfriends due to sexual assault.
I work in a nursery (in Germany) and we take children from 10 months to 3 years. I love my work and adore the kids. But I know institutions that take in few weeks old babies. I wouldn't work there. It just doesn't seem right to me. They need their mom and the bond with their parents. It's sad how many parents don't seem to realize the preciousness of spending time with their children. I'm not talking about the neccissity to work. But if you have vacation, then I'd think you'd keep your child at home to spend time with it. Especially if it's sick. Often times that's not the case and that's saddening. You'll never get that time back. Most kids spend more time with us than with their families.
I think if she did, it would probably be the same high end caretakers that senators pay for. She doesn't strike me as someone who would dirty her hands cleaning poop and puke, but at the same time wouldn't even let a caretaker even look at them unless they are strictly trained, paid 4-figures, nannies.
Other developed nations pay for maternity/paternity leave effectively and suffer no significant economical degradation as such. Sweden, Norway, Denmark - even the UK - do supporting the societal family better than the USA's dog-eat-dog, anti-family policies. 'Open your eyes' = look at better countries supporting their people.
I don’t have choice but to live in the US i was born here and can’t afford to move other wise I would love to live some place with really great health care
I wish people would stop talking about having children as being a choice. It's a societal investment in the future. When employers (and governments) refuse to give parental leave, they are essentially saying: "We don't care about future generations, because it's not benefiting us now." My response is: "When you're an elderly person in need of medical care, which young doctor will take care of you when you firmly believe that having and raising children is a personal choice that you refuse to contribute to?"
parap Employers aren't moral. I think a better argument is I work for you and getting pregnant is a biological norm that should not strip me of my rights to provide for my child. Now there should also be a compromise perhaps but it should definitely be granted to parents. I know there is a way America can do parental leave for up to a year.
I am from Europe and my company told me to take maternity leave whenever I want and that I can also have a second child imidiately if I want to which means I wouldnt be able to work for a another 2 years. The reason of that is that my employee doesent pay my maternity leave. It is paid from my health insurance and NO ONE ever complained about it. Because grown up people understand importance of having a family, a child and good family relationships and grown ups are the ones that are contributing to the health care system. Even 'millenials' doesent have anything against it even tho they are often called 'selfish'. America is looking at the Europe without considering who acctualy pays all those leaves. My company only pays a first few days of my sick leave, if I stay longer it is again paid from my health insurence. It is less then my paycheck, but atleast I dont have to go to work with cancer. But America has deeper problems such as health insurence and that is why everybody is looking at the companies. @Brutus Tan
You as a company owner owe everything to your employees and they owe nothing to you. Without them, you would only be able to make as much profit as you could produce yourself. Every employee that you have is working for you at a loss, as is every employee in the world. In order for you to turn a profit and have employees, you have to pay those employees less than they are worth. If you make an item that costs $2 in materials and overhead, $2 in manpower, and you sell it for $10, that is $6 that you profited off the back of your employee. That is $6 that you would not have without that employee. If it is only possible to make 100 per day per person, every employee you have is making you a profit of $600 per day while you only shell out $200. And that is not all going to their take home pay, because some of that is to health insurance, and other costs related to labor. Your employee is only making $120 per day. And you know as well as I that you get a discount on materials for buying in bulk, so if you lost all your employees, your material costs would go up. But, keep trying to fool the masses with the entire "without business, you all would die" rhetoric. That is why you all spend so much money making sure that low income children remain uneducated. You don't want all those people to learn that a business only exists at the mercy of its employees. If everyone walked out of Walmart tomorrow on strike for one week, the employees would only lose a week of pay, several hundred dollars at most. Walmart would have to shut down for that week and would lose millions.
In Sweden we have parental leave for 480 days. 90 of days are reserved for the dad and the rest can be split between the parents as they want. Talking about maternity leave and not paternity leave seems so...sexist? Don't both parents deserve to be involved and take their part in taking care of the children? Using my own parents as an example, my dad took Mondays and Fridays while my mom stayed home the other days. Nice to see that at least some of the people interviewed brought up equality and gender neutrality.
+Gnuchan Due to the fact that maternity leave is pretty much non-existent in the US, I don't feel it is sexist to not address paternity leave. Women need time off before and after birth for medical reasons outside of the care of the child, whereas fathers would only need off to care for their child and the mother. The limitations placed on women stress the need for the US to have better maternity leave. Then we can address paternity leave. I can tell you that if we get better maternity leave, that paternity leave will be easy to achieve.
+Gnuchan Sweden is a tiny and rich country and we can not afford same things Sweden offer. only immigrants have kids in Sweden anyway and also Sweden is a very feminist society.
+Elizabeth Killinger Ah I guess that it's true. The entire concept of not getting any time off after having a child is just so weird to me that I guess it's difficult for me to even imagine the importance of just maternity leave.
+Naweed sediq You can afford it, did you watch the video? Plenty of people have children in Sweden, not just immigrants, please don't listen too much to whatever right-wing propaganda is spewed about Sweden. Yes it's a very feminist society, and when it comes to parental leave it has benefited everyone!
+Gnuchan Yes, both parents should have equal access if they so wish to have paid leave. This idea of the mom being the only one responsible for child care is coming to an end. Luckily for the children and both parents. All benefit from sharing in the raising of a child.
In Estonia we have 1,5 years maternity leave with full salary :/ and you can stay with baby for another unpaid 1,5 years. During this 3 years by the law employer cant fire you.
Jim Britt I agree that 40 is a lot, but when you have instead free healthcare, free higher education, maternity leaves and laid off pays then you start to see things in perspective. And if you don’t agree with this order then you can work as a freelancer and minimize your tax expenses and pay everything for yourself 😉
@@jimbritttn Working and paying 43% taxes is called nation building NOT laziness. And it allows govt to provide benefits life maternity leave n free higher education. That's how politicians run a civilized country- it's NOT stealing.😉
Genevieve Wood said. 'I don't think there's anyone out there who's doing it better than America does"... !!....are you crazy ? ...even Mexico, South Korea and India have better maternity provisions than America !! .....then she equates taking time off to follow a hobby with raising a family ! .....because that's what raising the next generation of Americans is ..a hobby ??....heaven help the State of the Nation !!
I think that she is envious of the thought of younger women having what she never was able to have. She probably chose career over kids and wants everyone else to do that too
That's funny because men are actually behind on this issue. Currently laws objectively favor WOMEN, who at least have unpaid maternity leave, but I guess since it doesn't favor women even more it's misogynist, right?
@@Dennis-nc3vw are men the ones carrying the child? Are they the ones going through the pain of labour? Are they breast feeding the child? No ... Then shut up. Let's focus on getting women this basic right first then focus on getting paid paternity leave for men.
true, Obama even admitted this. Despite how people felt about him he had a valid point. When you have mainly men making up political positions then yeah they create laws and approve things if it beneifts them. Thats why in the video this worked great for Sweden, cause 50% were women. This is why people in those Countries are so happy
And men would also get child support and collect welfare and food stamps, and get alimony and full custody in divorce court, while women go out and work and die early while we watch Oprah and Dr Phil, Sounds good to me.....where can we men sign up?
I wish i lived in sweden🙀. I live in Wisconsin. I have a 17 day old baby girl. Im so depressed i must go back to work in 6 more weeks. Those people are so blessed to have a year to bond and care for their children.
Don't worry , you are a strong women , your child is luckie to have you like his/her mother Americans mothers have to fight to have a good and supportive maternity leave like any other European country
I live in America and just had a baby. They usually only give us 6 measly weeks, oh and by the way, they make us use our accumulated sick days for maternity leave, depending on the state. So it's not real maternity leave, it's "Sick Leave"
@@chelseatomkowiak1187 having kids dont help companies who are the ones paying you the money government steals from you by taxes should be paid back later in life
I'm in the US and having a baby this year. And there's nothing wrong with any of that. I would rather come home with more of my paycheck than pay for everyone woman who is pregnant even when I am not.
@@chelseatomkowiak1187 Your kids and your lifestyle Should not be my responsibility. YOU are responsible for choosing those personal things. And I love how you won't mention that the majority of welfare already goes to single mothers. And yet you want MORE, at someone else's expense. And I dare you to name me at least two great, and successful government programs. Public education? Nope. Social security? Nope. Planned parenthood? Nope. Veterans affairs? Nope. Medicaid and medicare? Nope. Food stamps? Nope. Section 8 housing? Nope. The worst part is that there is already a tax on people's hardwork called the "income tax". Working people are getting their hard earned money stolen by the government at gunpoint, so that it can be transferred to someone else. In other words, government taxes work, and subsidizes non work. That is NOT fairness, that is THEFT.
I am proud of being Swedish for these reasons, but every time someone says we have a feminist government I always wonder how they can say that. Yes, our government is pretty decent in a lot of ways, but we still have issues with racist political parties, and racism and misogyny kind of go hand in hand. I don't believe that you can devalue other ethnicities but still value women as highly as yourself.
Emma, Sweden has died due to the Feminist policies of the government. It is no longer the country it was. Your people have experienced a genocide you may never recover from.
Exactly i was thinking the same as my Swedish friend is also speaking about possible conservative racist agendas creeping into the government every election
If we compare the US to the rest of the developed world, I think we need to conclude that if the US fails to compare in paid maternity leave, a guaranteed 3-4 week paid holiday, healthcare, climate change and education and prison systems. And the fail is a big discrepecy; the conclusion might be that the US can not be deemed a developed nation.
@@jimbritttn then the senior citizens also haven’t “earned” social security, Medicare, Medicaid either. Because not all have worked the same amount of time, some have been house caregivers, etc… A society is happiest and most productive in all areas of life when we take care of each other. The richest country in the world should and can provide tax monies to educate, care for everyone’s families/children properly. It’s always the female being “punished” by society and the workplace IF she chooses to have a family AND work. I’m Sorry but Your input as an elderly male who has no idea what being a working mother, let alone a mother, entails hasn’t “earned” the right to weigh in on this issue. You’d rather we spend trillions on a military force over educating and supporting children/families?! Anymore a two parent household is absolutely necessary to survive with the insane costs of living today. Other developed nations have proven that these systems work.
@@BrookelLakeKC Both my wife and my daughter were/are "stay at home" moms! I worked in a factory in the 80s making $6 an hour and my wife quit her higher paying job to raise our two kids and we've never regretted it. We didn't drive new cars every year and didn't do a lot of traveling but my two kids never spend one second with a babysitter (except for my parents when we went out alone). My daughter is raising 3 girls (7 to 16) and none of them has ever seen the inside of a daycare. Her husband is a trucker and does his part (like I did) by providing for his family and not blowing money on junk. As to Social Security I paid the taxes for 51 years until I retired last year at 68 so it is EARNED unlike "child care credits (handouts) and other forms of welfare!
@jimbritttn I'm a stay at home homeschooling mom but I'd still want working moms to at least get 1 month paid leave to be with their children. It's not welfare, it's decency. Having my son with insurance still costed us $10k out off pocket, imagine the bills and no income simply because you're a woman and you are deemed responsible. Also remember times have changed since the days of your children.
I am from Colombia 🇨🇴 and the pay maternity leave is 18 weeks and companies can be sued if they fire the mother, even the father has a week!! I can’t understand how this happens in the US :(
My family is from Colombia and life sucks there. Many can't find good jobs and so women often focus on enhancing their beauty to get a rich man to support them. Life sucks in colombia and many are waiting to come to the USA.
The US segment was mind boggling too! I guess that like the gun discussion there is really nothing to do. It's unavoidable. No one in the whole world knows how to deal with these issues. ;)
It's so strange that conservatives aren't fans of payed maternity leave since they're so keen of getting their noses up womens uteri while they're pregnant, and in general getting themselves in between a woman and her reproductive rights. If you're a pro-life politician, in my mind, you should also feel like helping that mother/family HAVE that child and raise it is a priority. In my view, there's no middle ground there. Either you help the people who need it by giving them financial support and time to bond with their child, or you shut the fuck up about abortion and contraceptives aswell.
@@redexduke9023 No apparently, it just means spewing insults at women who don't agree with you, forcing them to do as you want them to do with no consideration of context, and generally treating them like crap. Prove me wrong.
I want america to help pay for my cat I'm raising...if you dont help me pay for it then you should "shut the fuck up" lol see how ridiculous that sounds?
i'm american and i've always found work "culture" in the states most definitely favors the employer over employees and that to a large degree there seems to be an unspoken attitude of "just be grateful you even have a job". my own experience (and what i've also heard from many others) to a large degree in this country labor is considered expendable and replaceable to say nothing of the horrid workaholic culture we have where you are almost expected to want to work every minute you're awake while also enjoying little or no job security. work for its own sake let's say. and yeah i'd rather live here than el salvador but in comparison to other first world countries employers are incredibly chintzy when it comes to time off and to a large degree our culture encourages it.
Maternity/paternity leave and universal healthcare, things all developed nations have... except USA. Instead of using taxpayer money to take care of the PEOPLE, it goes to endless war and the military industrial complex. I'm honestly so tired of the system in this country.
The situation of the women in PNG is so sad. I can't even imagine how painful it is to live in a place where I know I can't protect my daughter from rape and sexual/physical abuse!
Evil Bastard what part of the video gave you any inkling that the women have the funds for or opportunity to procure a firearm? And if they did get one by some small miracle, what makes you think that it would cure the rape culture when the men in charge don't give a shit about what happens to women in general?
Definitely. However I still think we need to focus on improving our own countries systems as that is the logical step....It's more difficult and tricky to stick our fingers in others' business plus we have enough people in the U.S.A. that deal with similar, people don't hear about it because it's of no interest to our media. I wish everyone would not have to suffer in such a way, but part of the reason the U.S. fell behind in taking care of it's working-class citizens is because of things like helping other nations first. :/ As for a metaphor imagine the U.S. being such a prosperous country overall, and personified as a hero in a flood, grabs onto a nation in need, then another, then another, before you know it the U.S. is drowning ( just as much in need) as those other countries when could've stopped whilst ahead.
I understand your firearm argument however, the problem is that men would 'dare' or 'consider' committing such a crime in the first place. Even when a woman (or a man) fights off an attacker they probably would still have mental trauma from the experience. Also, according to the law, is it 'reasonable' self-defence for one to shoot someone for trying to rape them. And if they did can it be proven that was the intention of the attacker. If the attacker is killed then as they were not trying to kill the victim - then deadly force may be argued to be excessive => victim being punished for defending themselves. The culture should be not only potential victims trying to protect themselves as that creates a life of excessive stress and anxiety but also potential attackers to be educated and their values 'fixed'. After all, men don't try to rape women/men because they want sex but because they probably think they are entitled to having sex with whoever regardless of that person's opinion; that the victim is not a individual they are an 'object' or just 2nd rate citizen; that 'no' means 'yes' really.... (this got very long...)
+Mariana : Your concern about proving the intentions of the deceased is where the legal concept of innocent until proven guilty comes in. The survivor, one who is, or could be, in court = who is _now_ in danger of her or his future and life - is legally presumed to be innocent. Their story is presumed to be true, unless there is real contradictory evidence before prosecution, and real proof before conviction. Yes, there are risks to that, too, but it is better that the risk side towards an innocent person becoming the victim of their individual neighbors than an individual becoming a victim of all their neighbors, of all of society teamed together, as the case would rightly read: "The People of Name The Place vs. Surviving Combatant". Stand your ground laws will further ensure this protection. Your concern about education is equally valid, and people do need to be educated. But, first, why should another person possibly be psychologically maimed because their attacker who sees them trying to get away, who most often hears them screaming No!, doesn't _fully_ understand? Second, and equally important, there are some people who may know exactly how harmful a thing is, but will still do that thing to others. Some people already know "better than", and we now need them to learn they'd better not!
Now and again I have Americans tell me they live in the best country in the world. But I really have a hard time seeing what's so great about it compared to the rest of the western world...
I'm American myself and it makes me sick how nauseatingly ignorant and blindly patriotic so many Americans are. They scream that they live in the "best country in the world" and are completely ignorant as to how they don't have BASIC social welfare rights that citizens of every other first world, developed nation in the world are entitled to. Stupid idiots. As an American, it's my life goal to be able to get the hell out of this shithole and immigrate to a REAL first-world nation so that me and my future children won't have to agonize over things as basic as healthcare and education. America is truly the "wild west" of the first world and I am sick of it.
Really? I live In America and everyone I know (except for a select few ignorant hillbilly republicans and then a select few rich business men republicans) thinks our country is a joke. USA is a joke. USA only helps the rich and that’s it.
Coming from England I’m always amazed at this. I was a teacher and took a very short paid leave, only 4 months. That’s considered brief, as I was entitled to 6 months full pay and then another 6 months half pay, with my job left open to return to for the entire year before you need to make a final decision. We are very very lucky
The scariest thing about this documentary was that there was no mention about the Consumption Mentality and how the entire economy is based on that. Like everyone is having mass amnesia or something.
If it works for Sweden it can work for us...their concept works...USA is being greedy again....equality for both men and women in the work place with the proper time off to be with their families is always a WIN! Happy healthier families equals a happy healthier Nation and society. :)
I just had twins and get 14 months paid parent leave. (Full pay.) Can't even imagine having to go back to work while my babies are still literally newborn. :( (Norway)
Um .... Sweden has approximately the same population as the STATE of New Jersey. If the United States were as small as Sweden and similar programs would be feasible. The United States is more than 22 times the size of Sweden. That’s like comparing what one priest does to take care of his one flock in one corner of a village with the Pope taking care of every Catholic in the world. Are you going to say the pope is selfish because he can’t take care of every single villager personally? That’s ridiculous
@@randimcmillan3148 Okay...then how about we compare it to every single country in the world that does have paid leave in the world, and compare that to america? there re 195 countries in the world, out of all of them, there have been 185 that have been extensively studied, only 2 other countries and the united states, have some form of maternity leave. Of those 3 countries, United states is the only one that is a first world country and has no maternity care. Over 50 of the countries that do have it, have 6 months or more in paid maternity leave. Some of these countries include Canada, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, etc, etc. Now... are you saying that america, has more than 50 countries worth of people? How about 192? must be pretty difficult as america has only about 327.2 million people, and there are about 7 billion people on earth. it seems to me that's under 5% of the human population. In short, the math shows that America can afford maternity leave, it can work and would improve the lives of all americans... but law makers have not because it does not care for its people.
@@randimcmillan3148 I mean that's not a great comparison, the Catholic church has enough priceless artwork, buildings, and valuables to feed and house every hungry Catholic on the planet. If the Pope wanted to really help people and effect change he could do so at any time. This analogy you made is literally proving the point of the video, even though I'm sure you didn't mean it like that.
If it's greedy for me to not want to pay for another's maternity leave because I need the money I EARN to pay for my life, my future, my retirement, and want to use the money I EARN on my own children and grandchildren - who I didn't ask other people to pay for, then yes, I am proudly greedy. It's interesting that 'greedy' is being defined by wanting to keep your own money. But it's not greedy to think you are entitled to another person's money. That is insane.
The US government passed a law declaring Drs didnt have to disclose to pregnant mothers if their children could be born with a fatal illness or physical disability (which we all know is astronomically expensive) but declared mental and physical disabilities a preexisting condition so equipment and treatment doesn't have to be covered by insurance,, most likely bc theyre against abortions (what a lot of women do bc they cant afford a baby) , they dont want to help cover birth control which women get bc they cant afford to have a baby, are trying to make abortions illegal, wont let you tie your tubes until youve had so many children or have reached a certain age in fear of being sued for regretting your choice in the future, Day care is expensive and mostly unsafe especially for a 6 week old baby as many deaths and abuse from the care takers has been reported. The first 5 years of a childs life are the most crucial to raising a strong minded, confident, smart, healthy child. It impacts and determines their learning capabilities, social/behavioral skills . A strong connection with a loving mother is vital for them to thrive. apart from the morality of this babys are necessary for our growth as a country , they too will become tax payers, soldiers and working citizens. Also women are 44% of the work force so basically you need working moms regardless. Childhood should be an investment , its the most sacred and meaningful part of our entire lives and inevitable. Every American pays taxes for something they dont even use. Homeowners pay school taxes even if they have no children in school, young adults pay taxes that help the elderly and disabled, we pay city taxes that maintain roads, trash collection , sewage ,education, etc etc etc. To top it all off its been proven to help our economy and has had no negative impacts so what exactly is the argument?
I live in Trinidad and Tobago, we have casual leave days (paid), medical leave days (paid), vacation leave (paid) and paternity/maternity leave (paid). I'm so blessed to be living here
My sister in law thought about getting a c-section just to get another month off. It's truly sad and heart breaking that American woman are having to make major choices like this and put their Heath and safety at risk and the babies just to get a few more weeks with their child.
SIPgirl5421 Wait, what?? Why would she choose to do that?? The physical risks go up a lot with c-sections. She should just ask her employer for a couple extra weeks off.
Look, officially around 15% of people in the US live in poverty, and if even just 15% of women didn't have children, that would hugely affect the birth rate. But that's discounting the fact that young people are on average poorer and have worse jobs. Then account for the fact that wages are stagnant and that many of these people will never be much richer. Also, in this model of yours, people who are not poor, but would be made poor by having a small number of children, also shouldn't have then. Pretty soon as much as 50% of the population doesn't get to reproduce. In a modern, RICH, developed country, I would say, it would be doing a huge disservice to the continuation of the species not to offer common sense protections and perks (paid maternity leave, free kindergarten and decent public schools, etc.) to people who are willing to put themselves through the inconvenience of having children. But somehow the Americans are AGAIN the only country that needs convincing.
Psyborg 0009 you are clearly a man so make this easy for yourself by staying out of this and stop acting like you understand what it’s like. Us woman don’t have a lifetime to just wait to have kids because with old age it gets harder to have children. And a whole lot of us are not born into a rich life like Kylie Jenner and can just afford the easy lifestyle she was born into. Some of us have it hard and is it so much to ask for woman to not have to lose their jobs just so they can be with their children and recover from having a baby?
Psyborg 0009 mommies can’t do that when they have to chose between keeping food on the table for them and going to work regardless if they want to be with their kids or letting them starve to death and finically struggle. Didn’t you only spew your idiocy onto the comment section and not watch the video? This video is about moms who WANT to be able to spend fucking time with their kids but can’t do that if they can’t get paid either? Not everyone is fucking millionaires and can stay at home with their kids all damn day at age 22.
Not true Canada has a Minimum of a year, so about 52 weeks! And the job is secured for a minimum of 2 years....And in the province I live (Quebec) we have subsudized daycares (you basically get to pay a sum depending on your salary)!! and if you have a risk pregnancy you get a disability leave and its paid 100%....and we have paternity leave.
Koka Albanova ...I have a question. So what’s to prevent a women in your country from having a new child every 2 years and effectively never having to go back to work...but still collecting a paycheck?? Are there limits to how often you can receive benefits?
Christa Kwon let's just leave it at rich lady. Because there are a lot of white ladies who don't relate to and despise that woman as well. Stick together for change.
This is why I don't have children, and probably why I won't ever have kids unless I move outside the US. Not because I don't want children, I'm extremely maternal and have wanted children since I was a teenager, but because I could never afford them, and if I could afford them, I'd never want to abandon them to go to a job I hate. If I had children, they'd be my job until they are old enough for kindergarten. :/
I would have loved if she had asked that woman from the Heritage Foundation "What about the women that don't have a choice and cannot afford to leave their work for 6 months or a year?" She kept talking about it being a choice and yes it is to women and families that have the privilege to choose what's best for their particular families. But what about those women who have no support system and are dying to be with their kids but have to go to work because they need to feed their family and pay rent, etc. What she said made sense to a particular type of mother but it definitely cannot be generalized. I consider myself lucky in the care and education I got from my parents but that doesn't mean I'm oblivious to other people's struggles.
@@redexduke9023 Not always. There are so many women who got pregnant as a result of rape, or poor sex education who did not get to make that choice. And if they chose not to have them, the pro-life forces in the government essentially go out of their way to ensure the woman has no choice but to have the baby.
How is it possible to have a mother.. a sister.. a girlfriend.. a wife.. and to still rape women? I don't understand that. Completely void of empathy. Completely inhuman.
The same can be said for taking care of an elderly parent. When companies pay CEOs millions but cannot take care of their employees there is something wrong.
I try not to look too much into conspiracy theories or that sort of thing. When you combine lack of maternity leave, unaffordable healthcare, school systems taught on a federally mandated linear model, tax breaks for high earners, and tax brackets in general (which operate on a basis of income: if you have an annual salary of between say $70,000 and $90,000, you pay the *same* percentage of taxes.. which is why if you get a raise you may end up paying more in taxes, making your paycheck less than your previous earned income). Not to mention the new tax bill, the lack of school funding, privatizing roads and putting in red light cameras -- which effectively remove a city's ability to control these previously public services, often rendering the streets not being serviced and parking fees becoming over inflated, not to mention your inability to contest a red-light ticket in court). THEN add all of this to an increasingly untrained police force, body cameras, cameras on street corners, restrictions on internet content and throttled speed. Tariffs on imports from our allies... the administration of passionate military and FBI career politicians being removed from office. Our economy is going to take decades to recover. College grants being throttled, medical insurance being removed, federal assistance being removed. The middle and lower classes are going to become even less likely to succeed. There *will* be fewer doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, biologists, geologists, businesses, technical writers, nurses, farmers, teachers and professors, service professionals and all professionals in general. Anybody who is attempting to serve their community and themselves in general will need to weight the pros and cons of going to college. I mean our minimum wage workers who are underemployed *need* to be on federal assistance. "The unemployment gap has decreased," they say. But it is because older citizens have to take jobs bc their insurance has been removed. But many of those jobs are part-time, meaning people are still underemployed. Instead of raising the minimum wage, our federal assets are overburdened because people are unable to provide -- and do not start the "oh they would still be on assistance bc they're lazy" because I ASSURE you many people who take a job at Walmart is there because they want to be. The "American dream" so many lower and middle income students strive for will become the "Can I afford it" class. There are people who say things like "I don't know why so and so makes excuses for not taking out loans and justify it as a reason to not go to college". Upperclass students whose parents can afford to keep one parent at home, all the while receiving work-compensated health care while even being able to afford it out of pocket -- and send them to college out of pocket, buy them necessities and get them jobs will rule the professional world. Meanwhile they are trying to bring back industries which are unsustainable in America -- timber, steel, aluminum -- while also rendering sustainable power -- nuclear, solar, wind, hydro -- unable to operate. There will soon be such a divide between classes because lower income people will be unable to adjust to the economic burdens. There is already such an insane class divide and a lot of people are unaware just how bad it is. Some upper class people have the weirdest names because it doesn't effect them.. look up "all star lacrosse names 2016" and you'll be like "Pilot Caring"? What the fuck. AND NOW the ability to literally genetically create your own child. There are geneticists who warn that there will be two species on human. I mean what on earth is even happening. It blows my mind. I used to be so proud to be American. We are supposed to HELP our neighbors and countrymen. But it's clear it has never been that way, and it will continue to not be that way.
We also need to rethink the 40 hour work week, and being in the office all that time. More jobs should offer work from home options. And some jobs are very cyclical. You're very busy at some times and very slow at others. You're expected to stay longer and get your work done when you're busy, and you're also expected to sit in the office for 40 hours a week when you're really slow. It's time you could be spending with you're family, and would reduce a lot of stress. I'm not sure why it matters if you meet your deadlines and get then job done.
Tell that to factory workers forced to work 10 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week on their feet. You complain about a desk job with AC...you are disgusting.
@@jimbritttn That is why the Great Resignation is happening. Companies are waking up and offering work from home options. They have to if they want workers.
Bangladesh is a developing country. Not nearly as rich as murica, yet we get 4-6 months of paid maternity leave, both in gov and non-gov places. Why are you so different?
i would think caused the us is different with the political sphere and the fact that there economies are different along with more programs such as the us military and navy
I can't believe that in USA these things are allowed but considering things such as health and education are private or cost so much I wonder why noone says anything. I'm in Uk and my colleague went to maternity leave one month before the birth of her little girl. For three months she'll receive (mandatory) full pay and then for other three about 70% but she will be able to stay at home until 1 year from the birth without losing her job. She won't be loosing 20K for raising her child....
I find this so sad. 30 years ago in England I got 9 months full pay and 3 months part pay. 30 fucking years ago. No one should have to go to work until they have finished breast feeding. America is a horrid place.
As an American, I fully admit that we are a VERY BACKWORDSASS COUNTRY! You don't have to be a "liberal" to agree that parents, particularly mothers, shouldn't have to choose between their kids or their jobs in this day and age. It frustrates me to no end when people say that they want to support the idea of the nuclear family, but at the same time, don't support policies that could make that possible FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE. Calling it an " entitlement" is wrong on so many levels. You bet your ass that mother is "entitled" to a few months at home with her baby and not worry if she'll even be able to continue to support her household financially. Gone are the days when all women were stay at home moms. EVERYTHING IS TOO F****** EXPENSIVE TO LIVE LIKE THAT NOW! The REAL reason my generation will have so few children is because their are NO INCENTIVES TO HAVE ANY! Why have them when that decision may destroy your financial future? Why should a woman in this age have to sacrifice EVERYTHING she had spent so long building in her career? Why should only ONE PERSON be financially responsible for an ENTIRE FAMILY? It has been PROVEN time and again by EVERY OTHER COUNTRY ON FACE OF THE EARTH that IT IS POSSIBLE FOR FAMILIES TO HAVE BOTH! And I'm sick and tired of the same old arguments parroted out by people who have NO IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR AVERAGE PEOPLE TO SUPPORT A FAMILY!
People often blur the lines between "asking for handouts" and asking for genuine and needed help. Nobody gives a shit about a parent or the babies after the child is born. And until parents get leave by law, I'll believe all pro lifers are giant hypocrites. I hate how america has become so goddamn ignorant to those who aren't born into money and who struggle. It's just like a room of men deciding whether birth control is beneficial for them or not. Yet, birth control would control the population, let wouldbe deadbeat fathers never become a father and those who can't afford a kid, never have to. It's so fucking stupid. Oh, let's make it a law that you have to go to school, and if you don't we'll throw you into jail (yes, that happens on the becca bill). And the education you get, will be completely meaningless after the fact. And yet we all wonder why the depression and suicide rate is so high for teens and YA. I refuse to have a kid. Especially in the us.
Parents SHOULD have to choose. The answer is to work, save, and THEN have children when you are able to. Not create life whithout having the means to even support it and then DEMAND that others help raise your family lol
My younger sister had to be put in childcare/daycare very early on as a baby since my parents unpaid leave ran out. Over the few weeks she was there she was abused daily by the other children and the caretakers knew, didn't do anything, and didn't tell us. A few weeks after my mom picked her up and noticed scratches all along her back and she was bleeding, when she questioned the daycare they just said "Well that wasn't us." We were lucky that my grandma had just recently retired around that time and she took the role to care for my sister.
this is why i cant put my son in child care we switched three fucking times. It pisses me of thinking of what i did I apologize for the the language, We had an in care sitter and two different daycare's. It was horrible. My son is in therapy sessions now. The word through the early intervention program was : They do not care about teaching your child... they rather receive a check and have him sit in a high chair. If that's the case I rather stay home with him. i want so bad for him to interact with other children Im petrified I dont trust any one. Imagine leaving for the daycare center getting their to find out every one left and your baby is alone or shes not their on time so your written up at work or how about your leaving for work the sitter sits on her phone and the baby nearly falls off the damn couch. Unbelievable. I nearly killed everyone.
NaturelDeese I'm so sorry about your awful experiences, truly. It makes me realise how terrible things really are in the US for mothers, and families as a whole
That sounds horrible. I work in a nursery in Germany (from 10 months to 3 years). I love my work and I'm glad that I can work in what's the most fun, enriching and one of the most important jobs for me. Still I firmly believe that families should have the possibility to spend as much time as possible with their children. It's precious and you can never get that time back. It saddens me when I hear reports of mistreatment of our biggest treasure as a society by professionals. It's a shame. We should never underestimate the influence we have on the lives of these children.
Maybe one of the reasons many Americans are so opposed to greater taxes is that they don't see the benefits for themselves, as a great amount of the taxes go to cooperate subsidies.
MonsterKat exactly. I pay so much in taxes (about 30% of my paycheck) and live paycheck to paycheck, but yet I make “too much money” to benefit from any of the taxes I pay in. If I’m going to be paying taxes, I better be able to benefit from it as well.
In NB Canada if you go to your Family Doc and say you have low/no income they will offer you "Compassionate Pricing" for Birth Control pills or the Patch making a 3 month supply only $10 full price would be $90.
It's sad our society doesn't value family and children more like the other countries do. Im a stay at home mom by choice my husband works full time. He took 1 week off unpaid when we had our 4 kids. When my babies turned 6 weeks old I always cried with gratitude that I've never had to deal with the pain of leaving my child. My heart goes out to the woman who have no other choice. And I will say I have a much much greater bond and connection with my kids then my husband that works 12 hours a day.
That Heritage Foundation woman is so tone deaf. I was waiting for her to say “If women want to keep their wages and have children, they should just hire a live-in nanny.”
OMG, that video got me really worried! I'm from Canada and when I saw the 17 weeks leave, I was like: "What the hell? Wasn't it a year??" Went online to read about it and yes we only have about 18 weeks (not 17, a least in Quebec), but we also have another 32 weeks of parental leave! That should have been mentionned in the documentary. So, almost a year (50 weeks).
I can’t imagine this mother’s pain. Even if it wasn’t the daycare’s fault and let’s say it was SIDS so it could have even happened while home with her I am sure she blames herself everyday cause she probably thinks if he was home with her she could have caught it earlier and did something faster to save him. It has to be heartbreaking to be so excited to see your baby and to get there to him dying/dead and knowing you weren’t with him in his last moments. My heart is crushed for her. It makes me so terrified of eventually putting my baby in daycare.
In a land where rape is a national sport, and their hobbies include hiding Bin Laden, fucking boys and taunting India, they beat the u.s. at something.
The more I learn about the States, the more I wonder how people consider it the greatest/best country in the world.
Soft power. People can't believe the US is what it is having seen all these entertaining movies, tv series etc. Also, we should remember that this propaganda is mainly aimed at Americans themselves.
THAT'S WHAT I AM ASKING MYSELF AS WELL.....
Fundi Nkuta The US has never been the best. It's just something that we are told from the time we are a child. The schools teach you that. Politicians teach you that. When I was in college I took a course called abnormal sociology. You have to take regular sociology first. Everyone should have to take those two classes because they will see the world in a completely different way. The Scandinavian countries particularly Sweden have been known as the best county for many decades. I am American and I am grateful to get the things that American has to offer but I also know that America is not the best. Did you know that our school system was also the worst? Europeans finish school at around age 16 and when they graduate they will be so much more educated then then in America. In America lots of classes are not mandatory and are "dumbed down" for kids to pass. In other countries it is mandatory to graduate knowing calculus, chemistry, physics. All classes that in America that are not mandatory. The list of differences in the school systems go on. Social issues we are way behind. I could talk about this forever.
Never been more brain washed
The US is the best sorry
You don't even need the "developed" in the title. Even fucking SOMALIA has maternity leave.
true.
amen
I dont get why you have to refer to somalia as "fucking" America is shitty end it at that
Maybe because Somalia literally has no organized government and is now run by different clans and warlords?
rachel langley What does that have to do with America not having paid leave? Why should women have to go back to work WEEKS after giving birth? It's bullshit.
Did she seriously say that if women get paid maternity leave, it'll reduce their chances of getting a job when they are in "child bearing age"?!?! What the hell is child bearing age? Like 16-45? Okay guys, just don't hire any woman between the ages of 16-45.
I live in Canada, and women of "child bearing age" can get jobs just fine.
She was thinking under the assumption that the employers pay out of pocket for that. Yeah of course that doesn't work, that is why payed maternity leave is provided by government, not employers.
@Entity51 It is called paternity leave and is implemented in civilized countries. That excludes shithole countries like the usa. By the way, the usa also has the highest death rate of women giving birth than any other developed country.
I heard from multiple ppl to take off my ring when looking for a job...that way they don't think you are married and are of child bearing age..in U.S. :) yup. Crazy
this is something that happens in my country though, people hesitate to hire cause they think - she will just leave to have kid
@Entity51 In Canada it can be the husband or wife that take it or they can divide it.
Really? Even my sims have family leave.
Amazing
Yeah, the US is pathetic. Too bad we can't saw the tumor that is their country off of North America so us Canadians can live in peace.
@@ellieblunden1463 Wow, what happened to being a decent human being?
@@rainillaaa lmao my country isn't the one that's denying people basic human rights. Whatever happened to human decency? Ask the US.
What are sims?
RAISING A FAMILY IS NOT A HOBBY!!!!!! That Heritage Foundation woman is delusional!
Neil Mcinnis We get it, you hate kids. Good luck getting your retirement payments without new citizens.
Neil Mcinnis If you get your way, when you're old and sick, there'll be no doctors and nurses to care for you. You didn't want to pay for the kids who were born while you were a working member of society, to go to elementary school, so they couldn't become medical professionals.
How to you pay for your kids if you dont get paid is the first place..
@@Genevieve1023 #robots exist ya dumbass...
@@rdpcl they bringing migrants for that same reason but the muslims and african ones are taking toomuch from government than what they paying
pro-life...until the baby is born!
that makes 0 sense. pro life is about not killing an unborn child, what happens after is not about life and death it's about how comfy your life is. If u can't afford to upkeep a child don't have one or face the consequences. not hard to grasp
*****
what are u talking about ? Abortion is widespread
pro-life is against abortion, therefore if you get pregnant, by pro-life's beliefs, you have no option to not have the baby, whether you are in the position to be able to provide for it or not
Ain’t that the truth? The lies are right in front of their eyes and they still think they’re right! It’s ridiculous😂
@@lordoffrog2354you're a dense one!
I want to add that here in Canada the woman and the man get 6 months each and the father can give his wife his, allowing her to stay home for a year. The pay is roughly 66% of your full salary. We do not pay outrageous tax either.
First, all the Canadian workers are paid a lower salary. That's a given. The employer gets less work from the average worker because some of them take time off and still get paid. So to compensate everyone gets paid less.
Second, everyone ends up paying taxes to run the bureaucracy to create, maintain and enforce these arbitrary government rules. That's also a given.
Throw in the fact that the whole system is involuntary and based on force and violence to implement and you can see it's a lose-lose situation for everyone.
+Niko942 bullshit they have a great system
tiara renee That's rhetoric, not an argument.
If the Parliament of Canadia dropped the corresponding law, thus taken the cost of missing employees off the employers, wages wouldn't rise. The money would go into the company's bottom line.
That's a given.
Ben Jamin Not really. In a free market that simply could not happen. Of course Canada isn't a free market. Only through the magic of government regulation and monopolies could something like that happen.
But your position is based on the absurd notion that business can simply offer any wage they choose. This is obviously false or else they would all be offering zero. What I said is logically correct.
Government: "Why we have low birth rates??"
Woman: "I can't afford to have a child and work at the same time."
Government: *Pikachu shocked face*
then they proceed to blame feminists for "forcing" women to work and "telling them not to have children" :)
So true
Then they want to say things like "we need women to have kids to support the workforce" and try to restrict BC and abortions as much as possible. Yet when it comes to actually supporting people when they have kids, nothing but the wind is there.
who ever said we have low birth rates hasnt been NJ. Were chockablock with humanity here.
Lol like if that really slows people down with having kids.
Did she throw raising a family into the same category as starting a hobby? 🙃🔫
yeah i peeped that too!!
I started scrolling down the comments to see if anyone else had pointed it out. Thanks ;) I’m a peaceful person, but I want to punch that woman...
🙃🙃🙃🙃 she sure did
That affluenza...
right!!! i paused the video to have a good rant. what an extremely false equivalent on every level. societies would stop existing if babies stopped being born, not to mention that kids are a lifetime fucking commitment...
Yea, I would happily pay more tax if that means a mother doesn't have to bury their child. My hole hearted sympathy to that mother who lost her son, Carl.
You don't get to say that unless you are a NET taxpayer. AKA anyone that pays more into the system than they get back.
She gets to say whatever she wants and everyone pays taxes in the workforce.
We don’t need to pay more taxes, bgovernment must spend less or nothing on outrageous projects, stop helping other countries because those countries are poor( regular people in those countries would not profit from out donations, but their rich politicians would), reduce salaries for Congress and Senate, they must literally be public servants, not enriched lobbyists. A smart person could find TONS os money but deep state isn’t interested in young mothers or their babies, it all about greed and power.
“Hard4Jesus” is it? I said what I said. I’m sorry you have a limited understanding of 1. who actually does hard work and 2. what happens to the taxes collected from the American workforce. The cost of not having paid parental leave in America reduces our earning capacity as a whole. The American people pay enough in taxes while multiple companies that billions of revenue dollars per year pay little to no taxes/ are heavily subsidized by the government. My cognitive abilities weren’t retarded during development you see, I developed like humans are supposed to, with common sense, empathy, and understanding for others. As someone who is “HardforJesus”, I’d think you’d see that, but clearly not.
America doesn’t have a revenue problem. You believe that this is not worthy of your tax dollars because you’ve been taught to think so, when in fact, the money is already coming in, and we (nationally) choose to spend it on other things. That is the truth. The fact that someone is willing to give even more of her hard earned money to prevention is gracious and I choose to support that though it is not necessary, because America makes enough to take care of its people. It’s not a surprise that social security (which 65 million Americans rely on) and public education (which all Americans rely on) is failing, now we see the “family values” side of our society crumbling. But you keep harassing people on the internet for caring.
our taxes support the murder of unborn babies by Planned Parenthood
"I don't think there is a country that does it better than the United States does" I can't even….
+Kailey Y I choked a little too.
My first thought was, "oh, so you've never heard of this place called 'The Rest of the World'?"
candii10 I know. It's just like, "have any of you ever traveled? Yes? Have you studied other countries' policies? Not really? How unsurprising, it appeared so."
Kailey Y Sweden?
Try looking North. I'm in Canada. One year paid. Can take another year unpaid, but still return to the job and keep benefits.
When I stayed home for one day with my two year old because he was sick, I was fired immediately when I returned to my executive training program the next day. This is now illegal. Now I'm a lawyer and I work for myself. I give my employees generous benefits because it's the best way to keep them and avoid the expense of replacing them, hiring and training new employees and making the workplace easier to enjoy. They work harder, they work extra in a crunch, and we're like a family.
IT IS IMMORAL TO STEAL FROM AN EMPLOYER AND FORCE THEM TO PAY SOMEONE NOT TO WORK. I WOULD GO BANKRUPT BEFORE ALLOWING A COMMUNIST/LIBERAL GOVERNMENT TO ROB MY BUSINESS. LAWYERS ARE THIEVES SO CAN AFFORD TO GIVE HANDOUTS
@@jimbritttn you serious telling me you going to fire a mother just because their child was sick and they needed to stay home with them? I hope your business dies
@@jimbritttn what a business owner behavior
@@ningning5500 forcing a business to pay someone that isn't earning the money is THIEFT and only 3rd world lazy people would demand it. WOMEN SHOULD BE RAISING THEIR CHILD, NOT PAYING STRANGERS TO DO IT.
every employee should get same SICK LEAVE (not just Maternity; if the CEO gets it the janitor should
I might never be married or have a child, but I strongly support maternity leave. I want to know that mothers and fathers are getting the time they deserve to co parent their new borns, and that for mothers especially, they do not have to choose between family and work.
Do you also believe other people should be forced to share all of the costs for raising your child?
first of all, i just stated that it wouldn't be for me. but if I ever choose to have a child, I believe in a society where parents are supported, because even if I were to never have a child, when we are older, we are supported by the younger generation. So to answer your question, tax is for the general population, not just for whatever is more convenient for one sector of society.
Joy Yu It's hard to tell, is that a yes?
Yes, because it also benefits the society, hence benefiting you.
TheBluesytone I don't think you have any idea how much harm and suffering this concept brings. In America, we have conclusively found that when society bears the cost of raising children, it takes away the consequences of people's action.
Young women sleep around, making babies with multiple fathers. Neither the mothers or the fathers care because society is forced to absorb the costs. In fact, the women view child birth as a cash cow because they get more money for every child. So they have lot's of children they don't really want. The children grow up unloved, in broken families with no fathers and their likelihood of incarceration is like doubled.
It is critical not to take away the negative consequences of people's actions.
Oh, how painful... Carl was such a beautiful baby, what a good mother... such a shame she lost him...
JustThatLauren It’s so sad. It’s horrible!
@Psyborg 0009
Dude, if she didnt make any money and kept the kid then he would be poor as hell and have a very difficult life, giving up your child to hopefully give him a bettrr life is hard
I know. She trusted those people and that happened. There was nothing she could do.
@Psyborg 0009
Are we talking about the mother or the father? The mother, you insulted her so that's the topic.
@Psyborg 0009
And not everybody has all the time in the world. She trusted it them and they broke it. Your telling me every single person you've trusted jas kept their word?
I had no idea how the system in the US worked. I'm Swedish and take maternity leave "for granted". As you said in the video, I think paid leave is what all parents deserve! :)
I feel the same way, now I have much more insight on the privilege I have to live in Sweden.
+Frida's Friday Sweden is a tiny and rich country and we can not afford same things Sweden offer. only immigrants have kids in Sweden anyway and also Sweden is a very feminist society. Sweden offers all the programs bcs the local population is not having kids anymore
+Lefebvre Julien Totally agree :) Size of population has nothing to do with if it can be done or not, since these things are funded by tax payers, aka the "population".
+Lefebvre Julien Canada has a lesser population than the US.
I honestly think the US can do this, We need to fund this with public assistant money since if this continues some women will be on it anyway. It's a state issue however.
Three month leave is a joke. In Europe, Eastern block, which is not considered so good to live as i.e. Germany women get 1 year paid leave and if you're jobless you get benefits. It doesn't mean that women are lazy or don't work. We consider children our future. Each one of us were child before. All the best to all mothers and fathers. 🌸
If you think 3 months of a joke try 2 weeks. I work for a State Farm insurance agent as an office manager, have no benefits (health, life disability insurance) and have 2 weeks of maternity leave.
Yes Germany has longer maternity leave. But lack of appropriate child care makes it almost impossible for women to return to the work force full time. Add to it German tax policy that makes it economically unprofitable to work for married women (Ehegattensplitting). And at the end is situation no better then in the US. It is a bad idea to have children in Germany for women. That is why the birth rate is so low.
Then why not take 18 years off?
Frog Snack fuck off u low life troll
forcing businesses to pay people not to work is EVIL
How can you compare raising your child to pursuing a hobby?
Laura Some Number it shows how she can't possibly relate to the average working class mother or mother to be.
Because to the SUPERRICH, raising, I mean _possessing_, children, is a status symbol, akin to a hobby.
She's wearing blinders! That's why!
Thank you for pointing that out!
It made me crazy hearing that...
I did a doubletake when I heard that! I had to go back to see if her mouth was moving and if her expression changed when those words were uttered.
Paternity leave is important too! My husband used all of his earned vacation days to be home with us for one week. It takes more than a week to bond with your baby and care for your wife who had a c-section.
We are also using all of our savings in order for me to stay home for 6 weeks. My company does not have 50 employees so they don't have to honor FMLA. I'm blessed to work for good people who let me have 6 weeks unpaid leave.
My dream would be to stay home for 6 months. He's our 1st baby 😢
Colie Oh! ❤️
Colie Oh! God bless you and your family ! I definitely know it’s hard ❤️😩
that moment when the lady from the heritage foundation compares raising kids to having a hobby...
Anna Nowogorski i paused and went “ Did she really just compare raising a hold to a hobby?” I was thinking it is one of the most important jobs a person will do in their life time it is far from a hobby
@@katlinoneill2497 It's a job her nannies will do for her. To her, having kids *is* similar to having a hobby. Only doing the fun stuff, none of the actual childrearing.
@@katlinoneill2497 The only people who are forced to have children, are male victims of reverse rape. As long as abortion is legal, women have superior control over whether they become pregnant (compared to the control men have), and have 100% control over whether they remain pregnant. It may take two to tango, but remember, Roe v Wade says it is WHO'S body WHO'S choice? It is not something that is mandatory for you to do, and it is not essential for your survival.
Having children is something you do by choice, for fulfillment in your life. And it is something that is not of any immediate economic value to people outside your family. That is why it is comparable to a hobby.
For them? Sure it is! Caring? That's what nannies are for.
@@carultch I disagree. At first, I was going to agree that you had a point that children may not offer an *immediate* economic benefit to society, but after thinking about even that point for two more minutes, I disagree. Children are a HUGE consumer market for companies (link with many sources: globalissues.org/article/237/children-as-consumers), with billions of money spent on advertisement. They also provide 100% of the audience/consumers of infant & child healthcare, daycare, private or charter schooling, etc. So no - there is pretty much an immediate economic benefit for children to exist. I'd actually argue that a child has a greater *economic* value to those outside its family than those in its family (because it's not like a baby or a child make money for that family; in fact, they cost money - so it's a negative economic value, strictly speaking, to have a child and then support that child until that child can become a self-sustaining individual).
Also, overall, it's imperative for a society to maintain its population if it wants to maintain or grow its economy. Google "economic dangers of population decline" (specifically, Russia, Japan, and Germany I believe have the worst cases of an ageing population) for sources and evidence of this (there's simply too much for me to put in a RUclips comment). A government that cares about its economy should have a vested interest in making sure people can reproduce. That's why it's nonsensical and outright destructive to view having children as a hobby. Children (who then become working and culture-producing adults) are the literal future of a society. If there are no (or too few) children, within a few decades (literally only just *decades*), there will be no more of that society. It will cease to exist.
And guys wanna make women feel bad by calling them "gold diggers" for not wanting to live a hard life or struggle. Now you see why.
Traditional lifestyle all but eliminated these 'hard life' issues in the past, when we broke from old traditions this is what we were left with.
Gold diggers are shitty people, they don't value people, they value money, not a good long term strategy for life long relationships, women value a guy for what he brings to the table i.e. (Briffaults law)resources or good genes at the end of the day its not romantic, biology says "its just business"..
be honest if you were a guy and you knew a woman only liked you because you had money would you be fine with it that means when you run out she runs out too.. at least with the guy he thinks you are physically attractive, he cant separate you from your beauty its a packaged deal...
@@40stryder03 Yeah, "traditional lifestyles" where women were bartered like sheep and had no rights to decide what kind of life they wanted for themselves. Believe it or not, other countries manage to have gender equality without the burdens the shitty USA leaves it's citizens to deal with.
@@sashatheelf It wasn't perfect, but economically/socially/emotionally speaking our traditions were much more stable than the one's we currently have now. In the past the avg man could work and pay for a family off one income, now 2 people have to struggle just to get by; leaving the child/children to raise themselves. Now millenials will not be able to have savings, children or families, yippie?,also the countries with "gender equality" have problems of their own (iceland, sweden low birth rate, will likely not exist in a generation or two if they don't change the trend, and the women are being raped by immigrants), the sexes will never be able to have equality, it is a pipe dream. you say women were bartered like sheep? what do you think the men were? they were used as cannon fodder on senseless political squabbles, pick your poison I guess, as long as your not going off of that women were oppressed by men narrative fed by feminist who want to castrate men and destroy the nuclear family, I'll meet you in the middle on the issues of women in the past, but the reality is life was hard for both man and woman in the past.
@@40stryder03 If you prefer the old model of caretaker+homemaker, I suggest you find a strong woman to look after you and the children you plan to raise at home. If you are unhappy with being used as a pawn in the military, vote for Bernie. Cheers.
@@sashatheelf What do I prefer? I'll take a handy, I'll fly u out, you open next weekend? We can make it a thing..
Cut military spending and you might be able to take care of your people like European nations do. (Low/free education, health care/insurance, maternity leave.. Etc. etc.) I'm sorry but America is overdoing this individuality/American dream thing where even the most vulnerable are left to fend for themselves because they'll just have to "work for it" or "work harder".
S S we are free. That means we debate and if Congress wants to bring paternity leave they may bring it. There is only one way to approach this that is through speech.
Imagine if education (like primary/secondary school, elementary/middle/high school) costed money O.o
@@Abhi_d1998
YES WE ARE FREE
WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO
BEAR ARMS
But we don't have the right to maternity leave and healthcare. Hmm I think USA priorities are in the wrong place.
and that's the motherfucking tea sweetie!!!!☕️👍
Rhinopocalypes they do cost money if you go to a private school, but that school system isn't supposed by the government.
This is why I don't understand pro-life people who protest in front of abortion clinics because they put so much effort into shaming the woman instead of stopping the things that made her go there in the first place like abstinence-only sex-ed and unpaid family leave
+Ayanyaj Sivart They cause the problems that want to prevent. What I want to know or understand is if any of them even remotely understand how hypocritical they are?
Evil Bastard Why don't you offer support instead of shame. Do you know if the mother was raped or abused. Are you gonna pay for daycare or possibly pay the bills if the mother has to give up her job? Are you gonna be by her side if the father is not. I'm not pro abortion either only in certain circumstances like illness but I understand why it's done.
+Evil Bastard As you can see in the beginning of the documentary, the ones who are murdering babies are pro-lifers who refuse to go to congress and protest for paid maternity and paternity leave. AKA, you.
Evil Bastard So youd rather a baby be born into an unstable enviornment or simply thrown into the system? Both of which often cause server mental trauma and often leads those children into lives of crime or into domestic abuse? Those kids that never feel loved or wanted and go through their lives suffering? More times than not there is a reason why the parents dont want their babies..either they arent financially ready, or they are in a bad situation be that drugs or domestic abuse. To force a child to be born into such a cruel world without the support or love of their family is more wrong than terminating them. And while some people will choose to keep them and struggle to raise them, no one wants to help those people out. Heck, government wants to cut those programs that help lower income families..and I dont see pro lifers rallying for better acess to medical care, food or shelter for low income families..I dont see them protesting education budget cuts that mainly affect low income areas. Its hyprocritical to fight for life and then let these kids go on to struggle during their childhoods.
I grow up without a father and my mother soon moved out after other man and i was left with my grandmother and grandfather, and i'm still very grateful for being able to come into this world.
If you take a decision to murder your child because you think "she would rather not born into the world" you are just making excuses to be free of your responsibilities.
Heritage Foundation lady is ridiculous, "Great, to take 3 months or a year off & I hope you come back"?! SMH... That's beyond any scope of how it works in real life, they would either be struggling at home if given the time without pay, or wouldn't even have the job to come back to... 😕
+Brutus Tan YOU, as a company owner, are a citizen just like the woman is. The only one dumb and entitled is you, expecting to get all of the benefits when you're not the only citizen in the scenario. And no, your company is no excuse, because your company is a non-entity, a non-citizen, and not entitled to rights or consideration. If you do not benefit the population at large, including your own employees, then you have no use for the nation at large.
Mrs. T is Going Debt Free right she literally just talked around in circles
Brutus Tan don’t ever have children...you sound like a selfish heartless asshole...really? Why should a women who just gave birth get special privileges? Really? That’s a ridiculous statement...giving birth is not an easy process...
guys complain that its mot equal taht woman get maternity leave but for real do you guys give birth ? hell no
do you guys carry the baby for 9 months ? hell to the no so they need it
Our children are our future. Paying for paid parental leave will benefit Americans in the long run by creating strong family bonds, which are virtually nonexistent now. It states right in the video which im guessing you didn't watch that parents end up on welfare which costs the public more. "Being stupid enough to get knocked up" You do realize that having babies is a necessity for the country's future right? I don't know why you have such a cold attitude being that you yourself are a mother. Not every pregnancy is butterflies and rainbows, recovery from a c-section takes time, much more than two days.
And we wonder why we have dysfunctional kids (i.e. school shooters). Maybe we should look more closely at the effects of infants not being able to bond the way they need.
Single Mother Homes......that's why
so, we should then, logically, blame the dads for ditching responsibly.
responsibility
SKMC69 be more specific. You mean white single mother homes.
SKMC69 that's stupid, most school shooters from what I heard of have both parents and usually take the gun from their dad.
Both paid maternity and paternity leave should be recognized and mandatory. This actually helps to combat the wage gap amongst genders because employers cannot use the potentiality of having a child as a hiring bias. As a counter point, this could lead to employers having a bias based on marital/relationship status.
iv said iv had no kids at job interviews and they assumed i was more available and hired me.. sad but true
naturegirl2110 well he's right your not going work, so paying you for doing no work would make no sense. Companies wouldn't be able to support themselves if they started paying coworkers who didn't show up at all. But for shame , they should pay mothers who chose to have kids ,so know what yeah companies should pay them and whiles their at also pay homeless people. That'll be great.
Mikayla Anisha And that's the problem with our society every man for himself gets very few men to the top and the rest are left poor. There is no more middle class which strangle families and in turn strangled society. When few have jobs eveyone pays. You pay for their healthcare, living exepnses, food, security force because of increased crime etc.
You don't pay one way you will pay the other. Every man for himself nobody wins. I used to look down on welfare people not anymore. Most don't want to be on welfare but when starting from zero and you do get a job welfare taken away. Your paycheck is less than welfare what do they do quit and go right back to welfare. Take care of families, give women their 3 months PAID maternity leave and we will all be better for it.
naturegirl2110 well that's life of being an adult . if you can't handle it live with parents. life doesn't stop because you can't pay the bills, and yes I will acknowledge that welfare can be beneficial in some situations but it shouldn't be used excessively like most people do. forcing hard working people to pay for your bills isn't fair . especially since the ones paying for the welfare and other government benefits are the working class. why should their money go to someone who is entitled like these women? they choose to have children ,they know the responsibilites of having children if they don't live under the means to have children they shouldn't have children . then they won't have to deal with the financial issues later on. but that's the issue with this society today no one plans head, and they're so entitled in expecting others to compensate for them after they screw up. well you know what a huge percent of people are tired of compensating for entitled people like these women in the video and won't stand for their shit anymore .if they're so independent they can handle it themselves, and leave our hard work alone.
Sam Jacques there is no wage gap though. They don't take into account everything, they only look at broad statistics. Men work more hours so they're going to make more.
So glad I had my kids in Germany and not in the US. No support for mothers here.
Moving there soon and so happy. Not a mother or planning to be; just would like to be in a country where people comes before profits and corporations.
And you don’t have to go into debt for medical expenses to have the baby, or for college. The USA is so backwards, the people are miserable and sick.
Mama2agn you said it!
Compared the the US, Europe is miles ahead. But in Europe itself, Scandinavian countries are winning with their policies. They just make sense!
Usually a demographic that is more white is better
+MookieGAMING bullshit!
_simply.s Actually, "Scandinavian policies" are destroying their host countries. Sweden is about to obliterate itself. Socialism and welfare have always been dead ends.
+Niko942 last sentence was completely unsupported
mr south What planet do you live on? On Earth, countries collapse exclusively because of excessive socialism. All countries that turn up the free market prosper and all countries that turn up socialism stagnate or collapse.
Furthermore, there isn't one bit of logic in socialism unless you support slavery. All logic points to a free market providing the maximum possible prosperity.
Content aside, the host did a really great job of asking questions without judgement and by getting to the meat of the issue. Nicely done!
America is so strange
strange how about despicable
Yeah. and you have to pay to give birth. 😕
Bear in mind that in spirit America is closer to Sparta than Athens. It's all about strength, cruelty and discipline.
So you want someone else to pay for it?
Foomanlol its called societal responsibility. Its seems the good old USA is all about ME ME ME.
To say that "no one is doing it better than America does" is just plain ignorant. It's so sad that these people can be so brainwashed to think that paid maternity leave "hurts women"...
it does take them away from work opportunities and employers wont hire them cause they are not hard working
@@redexduke9023 Oh shut up! If a man had to take some time off for an injury or illness before returning to work, I bet you wouldn't automatically say he's not "hard working". There are plenty of hard working mothers out there. The average person isn't going to miss a boat load of "work opportunities" taking off a max of 6 months. Plenty of other post-industrial countries do that and MORE and still have happy and productive citizens - or are you just so sexist and myopic to see that harming the family unit ultimately harms society at large?
Americans generally have never worked overseas. As an Australian who has worked in the USA for several years, as well as Canada and the UK, American does everything backwards and stupidly.
@@herpderpy9445 Calm down Xena.
I live in Romania, we have 1year and 11 months paid maternity leave, and 1 month the father! Cant believe such a developed country dont have maternity leave! So Sad
exactly!all over the world even developing nations have a minimum of three months to 6 months paid maternity and paternity leave thats how a good government works why get rid of a good worker because they had children how does that correlate to a developed nation!!
In my country, mothers are required to take at least 8 weeks. Not allowed, required. At least 3 weeks before and 5 weeks after, with up to 16 weeks for everyone, and companies generally give even more benefits.
This isn't a small government vs socialist issue. It's a public health issue.
No, it’s a you feeling like you have the right to other peoples money issue.
its interesting how the Swedish man said that people ussually come back to sweden when they have kids because its "not worth it". ive had the same thought. Ive lived in new york my whole life but i was born and i am a finnish citizen and honestly i look around at my family there with kids and my friends here with kids and i would much rather drop my life here to have a better life not only for my kids, but for me .
If you ever do have children, I would encourage you to return to Finland, they have the #1 education program in the world! I would have given anything to have educated my children in Finland rather than pay $20k per year per child at a top notch private school!
I had 3 co workers that moved back to Europe. Switzerland, Ireland, and Germany specifically.
I am so sorry for Amber for losing her child. I have a niece that was born in December 2015 and I can only imagine such a horrific thing. My sister chose to give up the job and stay at home. How on earth can a 3 month old baby be put in day care?
Truth is we are slaves to the system and the system is not for the people.
Same. I had to place my son in daycare changed three times. Im home now and have him in therapy worse decision. Although i had the option of maternity leave the fun had just begun. The daycares in the states def need a clean up. Im so scared to place in him child care now.
I cannot imagine leaving a three month old with strangers. I once read a case of a young baby being asphyxiated by one of the day workers boyfriends due to sexual assault.
liuton2005 I had to put my baby in daycare at 6 weeks. Horrible
It is very difficult if both parents are working and still cannot make ends meet. I am very lucky l am not in this position. At least, not yet.
I work in a nursery (in Germany) and we take children from 10 months to 3 years. I love my work and adore the kids. But I know institutions that take in few weeks old babies. I wouldn't work there. It just doesn't seem right to me. They need their mom and the bond with their parents. It's sad how many parents don't seem to realize the preciousness of spending time with their children. I'm not talking about the neccissity to work. But if you have vacation, then I'd think you'd keep your child at home to spend time with it. Especially if it's sick. Often times that's not the case and that's saddening. You'll never get that time back. Most kids spend more time with us than with their families.
"i don't think there's anybody out there that's doing it better than america is" - genevieve wood
open your eyes!!!
That part made me actually yell out loud I wanted to shake her
i wonder if she has any kids herslf?
I think if she did, it would probably be the same high end caretakers that senators pay for. She doesn't strike me as someone who would dirty her hands cleaning poop and puke, but at the same time wouldn't even let a caretaker even look at them unless they are strictly trained, paid 4-figures, nannies.
She's republican what would you expect
Other developed nations pay for maternity/paternity leave effectively and suffer no significant economical degradation as such. Sweden, Norway, Denmark - even the UK - do supporting the societal family better than the USA's dog-eat-dog, anti-family policies. 'Open your eyes' = look at better countries supporting their people.
No maternity leave, no public healthcare, and guns for everyone. I don't understand what would possess anyone to move to the US tbh
Answer: the richest life, material and otherwise, in the history of mankind, by far.
I don’t have choice but to live in the US i was born here and can’t afford to move other wise I would love to live some place with really great health care
Well you just listed three very good reasons.
@@marcushoward6560 ...please explain?
I wish people would stop talking about having children as being a choice. It's a societal investment in the future. When employers (and governments) refuse to give parental leave, they are essentially saying: "We don't care about future generations, because it's not benefiting us now." My response is: "When you're an elderly person in need of medical care, which young doctor will take care of you when you firmly believe that having and raising children is a personal choice that you refuse to contribute to?"
parap Employers aren't moral. I think a better argument is I work for you and getting pregnant is a biological norm that should not strip me of my rights to provide for my child. Now there should also be a compromise perhaps but it should definitely be granted to parents. I know there is a way America can do parental leave for up to a year.
PaiNExoTiC Why are you paying taxes then? You are paying for all kinds of thing you don't agree with. You don't get a say where your taxes go.
Having children is not an investment. It is a sacrifice. An investment implies that there is a realistic chance you'll get paid back for it.
I am from Europe and my company told me to take maternity leave whenever I want and that I can also have a second child imidiately if I want to which means I wouldnt be able to work for a another 2 years. The reason of that is that my employee doesent pay my maternity leave. It is paid from my health insurance and NO ONE ever complained about it. Because grown up people understand importance of having a family, a child and good family relationships and grown ups are the ones that are contributing to the health care system. Even 'millenials' doesent have anything against it even tho they are often called 'selfish'.
America is looking at the Europe without considering who acctualy pays all those leaves. My company only pays a first few days of my sick leave, if I stay longer it is again paid from my health insurence. It is less then my paycheck, but atleast I dont have to go to work with cancer.
But America has deeper problems such as health insurence and that is why everybody is looking at the companies.
@Brutus Tan
You as a company owner owe everything to your employees and they owe nothing to you. Without them, you would only be able to make as much profit as you could produce yourself. Every employee that you have is working for you at a loss, as is every employee in the world. In order for you to turn a profit and have employees, you have to pay those employees less than they are worth. If you make an item that costs $2 in materials and overhead, $2 in manpower, and you sell it for $10, that is $6 that you profited off the back of your employee. That is $6 that you would not have without that employee. If it is only possible to make 100 per day per person, every employee you have is making you a profit of $600 per day while you only shell out $200. And that is not all going to their take home pay, because some of that is to health insurance, and other costs related to labor. Your employee is only making $120 per day. And you know as well as I that you get a discount on materials for buying in bulk, so if you lost all your employees, your material costs would go up. But, keep trying to fool the masses with the entire "without business, you all would die" rhetoric. That is why you all spend so much money making sure that low income children remain uneducated. You don't want all those people to learn that a business only exists at the mercy of its employees. If everyone walked out of Walmart tomorrow on strike for one week, the employees would only lose a week of pay, several hundred dollars at most. Walmart would have to shut down for that week and would lose millions.
In Sweden we have parental leave for 480 days. 90 of days are reserved for the dad and the rest can be split between the parents as they want. Talking about maternity leave and not paternity leave seems so...sexist? Don't both parents deserve to be involved and take their part in taking care of the children? Using my own parents as an example, my dad took Mondays and Fridays while my mom stayed home the other days. Nice to see that at least some of the people interviewed brought up equality and gender neutrality.
+Gnuchan Due to the fact that maternity leave is pretty much non-existent in the US, I don't feel it is sexist to not address paternity leave. Women need time off before and after birth for medical reasons outside of the care of the child, whereas fathers would only need off to care for their child and the mother. The limitations placed on women stress the need for the US to have better maternity leave. Then we can address paternity leave. I can tell you that if we get better maternity leave, that paternity leave will be easy to achieve.
+Gnuchan Sweden is a tiny and rich country and we can not afford same things Sweden offer. only immigrants have kids in Sweden anyway and also Sweden is a very feminist society.
+Elizabeth Killinger Ah I guess that it's true. The entire concept of not getting any time off after having a child is just so weird to me that I guess it's difficult for me to even imagine the importance of just maternity leave.
+Naweed sediq You can afford it, did you watch the video? Plenty of people have children in Sweden, not just immigrants, please don't listen too much to whatever right-wing propaganda is spewed about Sweden. Yes it's a very feminist society, and when it comes to parental leave it has benefited everyone!
+Gnuchan Yes, both parents should have equal access if they so wish to have paid leave. This idea of the mom being the only one responsible for child care is coming to an end. Luckily for the children and both parents. All benefit from sharing in the raising of a child.
The lack of flexibility and compassion for women in the workplace because they can reproduce and men can't is disgusting.
But men are lying to themselves because they are helping with reproduction with women. Women can not make by themselves.
Your body, your choice?
Your body, your problem.
Independence cuts both ways.
Dennis M
What are you talking about?
You’re using a phrase for abortion on a topic of maternity leave?😂
Are you mental?
women are supposed to be raising their kids and not chasing the dollar while their kids are raised by strangers in a daycare
Jim Britt Yeah but they have to work in this country because there isn’t enough paid leave. It cost money to raise a child.
Lithuania provides TWO YEARS paid maternity leave, not 18 weeks!
Wow
...so?
Wow amazing such respect for the people
In Estonia we have 1,5 years maternity leave with full salary :/ and you can stay with baby for another unpaid 1,5 years. During this 3 years by the law employer cant fire you.
that is STEALING from your employer. I would refuse to hire females
Jim Britt working class pays ca 43% taxes every month. So all this money you get from government, not employer
@@katjarummel 43% is STOLEN by politicians so they can give handouts to lazy people! I only pay about 8% income taxes and that is too much
Jim Britt I agree that 40 is a lot, but when you have instead free healthcare, free higher education, maternity leaves and laid off pays then you start to see things in perspective. And if you don’t agree with this order then you can work as a freelancer and minimize your tax expenses and pay everything for yourself 😉
@@jimbritttn Working and paying 43% taxes is called nation building NOT laziness. And it allows govt to provide benefits life maternity leave n free higher education. That's how politicians run a civilized country- it's NOT stealing.😉
It shocks me that being pregnant is classed as a disability by your government.
that is what happens when maternity leave isn't a thing
Genevieve Wood said. 'I don't think there's anyone out there who's doing it better than America does"... !!....are you crazy ? ...even Mexico, South Korea and India have better maternity provisions than America !! .....then she equates taking time off to follow a hobby with raising a family ! .....because that's what raising the next generation of Americans is ..a hobby ??....heaven help the State of the Nation !!
'Mexico'... hah, okay then.
Basically, she a fukcing bitch . It had to be said. She's disgusting and i don't know how she leaves with that kind of ridiculous reasoning.
@@frogsnack7072 Mexico has very good healthcare in some areas. Many US residents go down to Mexico city for affordable healthcare.
I think that she is envious of the thought of younger women having what she never was able to have. She probably chose career over kids and wants everyone else to do that too
baby carl
She didn't lose the child.
The child died.
If men were the ones to give birth . There would be paid Maternity leave.
That's funny because men are actually behind on this issue. Currently laws objectively favor WOMEN, who at least have unpaid maternity leave, but I guess since it doesn't favor women even more it's misogynist, right?
@@Dennis-nc3vw are men the ones carrying the child? Are they the ones going through the pain of labour? Are they breast feeding the child? No ... Then shut up. Let's focus on getting women this basic right first then focus on getting paid paternity leave for men.
true, Obama even admitted this. Despite how people felt about him he had a valid point. When you have mainly men making up political positions then yeah they create laws and approve things if it beneifts them. Thats why in the video this worked great for Sweden, cause 50% were women. This is why people in those Countries are so happy
And men would also get child support and collect welfare and food stamps, and get alimony and full custody in divorce court, while women go out and work and die early while we watch Oprah and Dr Phil, Sounds good to me.....where can we men sign up?
@@MJ98774 pssh they don't want to hear that and want to life in their illusion
I wish i lived in sweden🙀. I live in Wisconsin. I have a 17 day old baby girl. Im so depressed i must go back to work in 6 more weeks. Those people are so blessed to have a year to bond and care for their children.
Don't worry , you are a strong women , your child is luckie to have you like his/her mother
Americans mothers have to fight to have a good and supportive maternity leave like any other European country
Stay strong
I live in America and just had a baby. They usually only give us 6 measly weeks, oh and by the way, they make us use our accumulated sick days for maternity leave, depending on the state. So it's not real maternity leave, it's "Sick Leave"
@Psyborg 0009
gfys
@@chelseatomkowiak1187 having kids dont help companies who are the ones paying you the money government steals from you by taxes should be paid back later in life
I'm in the US and having a baby this year. And there's nothing wrong with any of that. I would rather come home with more of my paycheck than pay for everyone woman who is pregnant even when I am not.
@@frogsnack7072 Land of the selfish and heartless! XD
@@chelseatomkowiak1187 Your kids and your lifestyle Should not be my responsibility. YOU are responsible for choosing those personal things. And I love how you won't mention that the majority of welfare already goes to single mothers. And yet you want MORE, at someone else's expense. And I dare you to name me at least two great, and successful government programs.
Public education? Nope.
Social security? Nope.
Planned parenthood? Nope.
Veterans affairs? Nope.
Medicaid and medicare? Nope.
Food stamps? Nope.
Section 8 housing? Nope.
The worst part is that there is already a tax on people's hardwork called the "income tax". Working people are getting their hard earned money stolen by the government at gunpoint, so that it can be transferred to someone else. In other words, government taxes work, and subsidizes non work. That is NOT fairness, that is THEFT.
I am proud of being Swedish for these reasons, but every time someone says we have a feminist government I always wonder how they can say that. Yes, our government is pretty decent in a lot of ways, but we still have issues with racist political parties, and racism and misogyny kind of go hand in hand. I don't believe that you can devalue other ethnicities but still value women as highly as yourself.
there no racism in sweden only against straight white men
Emma, Sweden has died due to the Feminist policies of the government. It is no longer the country it was. Your people have experienced a genocide you may never recover from.
Feminist movements have become Female Supremacist groups. It's not about equality, it's about taking things from men.
Exactly i was thinking the same as my Swedish friend is also speaking about possible conservative racist agendas creeping into the government every election
@@courtenayvermeulen6752 do tell
If we compare the US to the rest of the developed world, I think we need to conclude that if the US fails to compare in paid maternity leave, a guaranteed 3-4 week paid holiday, healthcare, climate change and education and prison systems. And the fail is a big discrepecy; the conclusion might be that the US can not be deemed a developed nation.
THEY DESERVE THE "TIME" BUT NOT THE UNEARNED PAYCHECK!
@@jimbritttn then the senior citizens also haven’t “earned” social security, Medicare, Medicaid either. Because not all have worked the same amount of time, some have been house caregivers, etc… A society is happiest and most productive in all areas of life when we take care of each other. The richest country in the world should and can provide tax monies to educate, care for everyone’s families/children properly. It’s always the female being “punished” by society and the workplace IF she chooses to have a family AND work. I’m Sorry but Your input as an elderly male who has no idea what being a working mother, let alone a mother, entails hasn’t “earned” the right to weigh in on this issue. You’d rather we spend trillions on a military force over educating and supporting children/families?!
Anymore a two parent household is absolutely necessary to survive with the insane costs of living today.
Other developed nations have proven that these systems work.
@@BrookelLakeKC Both my wife and my daughter were/are "stay at home" moms! I worked in a factory in the 80s making $6 an hour and my wife quit her higher paying job to raise our two kids and we've never regretted it. We didn't drive new cars every year and didn't do a lot of traveling but my two kids never spend one second with a babysitter (except for my parents when we went out alone). My daughter is raising 3 girls (7 to 16) and none of them has ever seen the inside of a daycare. Her husband is a trucker and does his part (like I did) by providing for his family and not blowing money on junk.
As to Social Security I paid the taxes for 51 years until I retired last year at 68 so it is EARNED unlike "child care credits (handouts) and other forms of welfare!
@jimbritttn I'm a stay at home homeschooling mom but I'd still want working moms to at least get 1 month paid leave to be with their children. It's not welfare, it's decency.
Having my son with insurance still costed us $10k out off pocket, imagine the bills and no income simply because you're a woman and you are deemed responsible. Also remember times have changed since the days of your children.
LOL The Heritage Foundation is a joke... wooooow. I love the interviewer's unimpressed facial expression. xD
Its a large building. Easy target for a protest 🎆🎆🎆 😜
With the technologies we have it is a wonder why we did not extract this 40 year old heritage tumor sooner.
I am from Colombia 🇨🇴 and the pay maternity leave is 18 weeks and companies can be sued if they fire the mother, even the father has a week!! I can’t understand how this happens in the US :(
My family is from Colombia and life sucks there. Many can't find good jobs and so women often focus on enhancing their beauty to get a rich man to support them. Life sucks in colombia and many are waiting to come to the USA.
@@Kiki-fe2le they have maternity leave tho
THEY DESERVE THE "TIME" BUT NOT THE UNEARNED PAYCHECK!
Wow.. the segment on Papua New Guinea was heartbreaking, I couldn't hold back the tears. It made me so sad :(
yeah, its really eye opening and heartbreaking seeing the issues that women still have to face in 2016.
That woman she interviewed was so strong. I was in shock.
Lupe Jelena same. The lady in the pink shirt broke my heart.
The US segment was mind boggling too! I guess that like the gun discussion there is really nothing to do. It's unavoidable. No one in the whole world knows how to deal with these issues. ;)
Evil Bastard what do you mean ?
It's so strange that conservatives aren't fans of payed maternity leave since they're so keen of getting their noses up womens uteri while they're pregnant, and in general getting themselves in between a woman and her reproductive rights. If you're a pro-life politician, in my mind, you should also feel like helping that mother/family HAVE that child and raise it is a priority. In my view, there's no middle ground there. Either you help the people who need it by giving them financial support and time to bond with their child, or you shut the fuck up about abortion and contraceptives aswell.
pro life dont means u have to pay for other people stuff and responsibilities
@@redexduke9023 No apparently, it just means spewing insults at women who don't agree with you, forcing them to do as you want them to do with no consideration of context, and generally treating them like crap. Prove me wrong.
I want america to help pay for my cat I'm raising...if you dont help me pay for it then you should "shut the fuck up" lol see how ridiculous that sounds?
@@lr4439 Because having a cat is the same as having a child, of course.
I can't even get paid leave if I'm sick with the flu; I am forced to work or get fired. Women should have same 'equality'
i'm american and i've always found work "culture" in the states most definitely favors the employer over employees and that to a large degree there seems to be an unspoken attitude of "just be grateful you even have a job". my own experience (and what i've also heard from many others) to a large degree in this country labor is considered expendable and replaceable to say nothing of the horrid workaholic culture we have where you are almost expected to want to work every minute you're awake while also enjoying little or no job security. work for its own sake let's say. and yeah i'd rather live here than el salvador but in comparison to other first world countries employers are incredibly chintzy when it comes to time off and to a large degree our culture encourages it.
Maternity/paternity leave and universal healthcare, things all developed nations have... except USA. Instead of using taxpayer money to take care of the PEOPLE, it goes to endless war and the military industrial complex. I'm honestly so tired of the system in this country.
We are disgusting and i don't see how it can change, who will demand it and when will they listen ?
The situation of the women in PNG is so sad. I can't even imagine how painful it is to live in a place where I know I can't protect my daughter from rape and sexual/physical abuse!
Evil Bastard
Solving everything with guns!
'merica
Evil Bastard what part of the video gave you any inkling that the women have the funds for or opportunity to procure a firearm? And if they did get one by some small miracle, what makes you think that it would cure the rape culture when the men in charge don't give a shit about what happens to women in general?
Definitely. However I still think we need to focus on improving our own countries systems as that is the logical step....It's more difficult and tricky to stick our fingers in others' business plus we have enough people in the U.S.A. that deal with similar, people don't hear about it because it's of no interest to our media. I wish everyone would not have to suffer in such a way, but part of the reason the U.S. fell behind in taking care of it's working-class citizens is because of things like helping other nations first. :/
As for a metaphor imagine the U.S. being such a prosperous country overall, and personified as a hero in a flood, grabs onto a nation in need, then another, then another, before you know it the U.S. is drowning ( just as much in need) as those other countries when could've stopped whilst ahead.
I understand your firearm argument however, the problem is that men would 'dare' or 'consider' committing such a crime in the first place. Even when a woman (or a man) fights off an attacker they probably would still have mental trauma from the experience. Also, according to the law, is it 'reasonable' self-defence for one to shoot someone for trying to rape them. And if they did can it be proven that was the intention of the attacker. If the attacker is killed then as they were not trying to kill the victim - then deadly force may be argued to be excessive => victim being punished for defending themselves.
The culture should be not only potential victims trying to protect themselves as that creates a life of excessive stress and anxiety but also potential attackers to be educated and their values 'fixed'. After all, men don't try to rape women/men because they want sex but because they probably think they are entitled to having sex with whoever regardless of that person's opinion; that the victim is not a individual they are an 'object' or just 2nd rate citizen; that 'no' means 'yes' really.... (this got very long...)
+Mariana :
Your concern about proving the intentions of the deceased is where the legal concept of innocent until proven guilty comes in. The survivor, one who is, or could be, in court = who is _now_ in danger of her or his future and life - is legally presumed to be innocent. Their story is presumed to be true, unless there is real contradictory evidence before prosecution, and real proof before conviction. Yes, there are risks to that, too, but it is better that the risk side towards an innocent person becoming the victim of their individual neighbors than an individual becoming a victim of all their neighbors, of all of society teamed together, as the case would rightly read: "The People of Name The Place vs. Surviving Combatant". Stand your ground laws will further ensure this protection.
Your concern about education is equally valid, and people do need to be educated. But, first, why should another person possibly be psychologically maimed because their attacker who sees them trying to get away, who most often hears them screaming No!, doesn't _fully_ understand? Second, and equally important, there are some people who may know exactly how harmful a thing is, but will still do that thing to others. Some people already know "better than", and we now need them to learn they'd better not!
The More Of a Adult I become I understand the phrase " They call it the American dream because you have to be ASLEEP to BELIEVE it."
Now and again I have Americans tell me they live in the best country in the world. But I really have a hard time seeing what's so great about it compared to the rest of the western world...
I'm American myself and it makes me sick how nauseatingly ignorant and blindly patriotic so many Americans are. They scream that they live in the "best country in the world" and are completely ignorant as to how they don't have BASIC social welfare rights that citizens of every other first world, developed nation in the world are entitled to. Stupid idiots. As an American, it's my life goal to be able to get the hell out of this shithole and immigrate to a REAL first-world nation so that me and my future children won't have to agonize over things as basic as healthcare and education. America is truly the "wild west" of the first world and I am sick of it.
Really? I live In America and everyone I know (except for a select few ignorant hillbilly republicans and then a select few rich business men republicans) thinks our country is a joke. USA is a joke. USA only helps the rich and that’s it.
Damn, I love this channel. Been binge watching it for at least 6 hours now...
yes!! me too lol
same here
damn i gotta say broadly has been kicking vice's ass. dude here..
girl im hooked too
I also love this channel maybe even better than Vice
my heart crys for that mother who lost her baby at day care. I feel her pain the loss of your baby destroys you. I know
me too, it breaks my heart. I can't even think about what if I lost my 2 month daughter. my heart aches for that woman's lost
I'm sorry for your loss.
Coming from England I’m always amazed at this. I was a teacher and took a very short paid leave, only 4 months. That’s considered brief, as I was entitled to 6 months full pay and then another 6 months half pay, with my job left open to return to for the entire year before you need to make a final decision. We are very very lucky
The scariest thing about this documentary was that there was no mention about the Consumption Mentality and how the entire economy is based on that.
Like everyone is having mass amnesia or something.
could you elaborate, please? I actually never thought about how it affects maternity leave
yes please explain
Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births , 2015 , data from the World Bank.
Greece 3, Germany 6, United States 14.
Is there more to say?
If it works for Sweden it can work for us...their concept works...USA is being greedy again....equality for both men and women in the work place with the proper time off to be with their families is always a WIN! Happy healthier families equals a happy healthier Nation and society. :)
I just had twins and get 14 months paid parent leave. (Full pay.) Can't even imagine having to go back to work while my babies are still literally newborn. :( (Norway)
Um .... Sweden has approximately the same population as the STATE of New Jersey. If the United States were as small as Sweden and similar programs would be feasible. The United States is more than 22 times the size of Sweden. That’s like comparing what one priest does to take care of his one flock in one corner of a village with the Pope taking care of every Catholic in the world. Are you going to say the pope is selfish because he can’t take care of every single villager personally? That’s ridiculous
@@randimcmillan3148
Okay...then how about we compare it to every single country in the world that does have paid leave in the world, and compare that to america?
there re 195 countries in the world, out of all of them, there have been 185 that have been extensively studied, only 2 other countries and the united states, have some form of maternity leave. Of those 3 countries, United states is the only one that is a first world country and has no maternity care.
Over 50 of the countries that do have it, have 6 months or more in paid maternity leave. Some of these countries include Canada, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, etc, etc.
Now... are you saying that america, has more than 50 countries worth of people? How about 192? must be pretty difficult as america has only about 327.2 million people, and there are about 7 billion people on earth. it seems to me that's under 5% of the human population.
In short, the math shows that America can afford maternity leave, it can work and would improve the lives of all americans... but law makers have not because it does not care for its people.
@@randimcmillan3148 I mean that's not a great comparison, the Catholic church has enough priceless artwork, buildings, and valuables to feed and house every hungry Catholic on the planet. If the Pope wanted to really help people and effect change he could do so at any time. This analogy you made is literally proving the point of the video, even though I'm sure you didn't mean it like that.
If it's greedy for me to not want to pay for another's maternity leave because I need the money I EARN to pay for my life, my future, my retirement, and want to use the money I EARN on my own children and grandchildren - who I didn't ask other people to pay for, then yes, I am proudly greedy.
It's interesting that 'greedy' is being defined by wanting to keep your own money.
But it's not greedy to think you are entitled to another person's money.
That is insane.
The US government passed a law declaring Drs didnt have to disclose to pregnant mothers if their children could be born with a fatal illness or physical disability (which we all know is astronomically expensive) but declared mental and physical disabilities a preexisting condition so equipment and treatment doesn't have to be covered by insurance,, most likely bc theyre against abortions (what a lot of women do bc they cant afford a baby) , they dont want to help cover birth control which women get bc they cant afford to have a baby, are trying to make abortions illegal, wont let you tie your tubes until youve had so many children or have reached a certain age in fear of being sued for regretting your choice in the future, Day care is expensive and mostly unsafe especially for a 6 week old baby as many deaths and abuse from the care takers has been reported. The first 5 years of a childs life are the most crucial to raising a strong minded, confident, smart, healthy child. It impacts and determines their learning capabilities, social/behavioral skills . A strong connection with a loving mother is vital for them to thrive. apart from the morality of this babys are necessary for our growth as a country , they too will become tax payers, soldiers and working citizens. Also women are 44% of the work force so basically you need working moms regardless. Childhood should be an investment , its the most sacred and meaningful part of our entire lives and inevitable. Every American pays taxes for something they dont even use. Homeowners pay school taxes even if they have no children in school, young adults pay taxes that help the elderly and disabled, we pay city taxes that maintain roads, trash collection , sewage ,education, etc etc etc. To top it all off its been proven to help our economy and has had no negative impacts so what exactly is the argument?
Maria Blanco thank you for your wonderful comment
I agree , I'm from Canada and investment in how we raise our children is so very important . Thank you .
great recap, so sad politicians can't see it , actually don't want to see it more than can't
I live in Trinidad and Tobago, we have casual leave days (paid), medical leave days (paid), vacation leave (paid) and paternity/maternity leave (paid). I'm so blessed to be living here
Rasing the future is equivalent to a hobby. Ok then.
Forget about developed countries even Zimbabwe and Zambia have paid maternity leave.
bankrupt with horrible taxes
Jim Britt
But they have maternity leave...🤔
Why can’t a “rich, free first world country” afford it?
Nick Arjomand
Doesn’t what?
Me after watching this video: Googling 'how to move to Sweden'
Great documentary, I hope people in the US fight for their right to have paid maternity and paternity leave.
My sister in law thought about getting a c-section just to get another month off. It's truly sad and heart breaking that American woman are having to make major choices like this and put their Heath and safety at risk and the babies just to get a few more weeks with their child.
SIPgirl5421 Wait, what?? Why would she choose to do that?? The physical risks go up a lot with c-sections. She should just ask her employer for a couple extra weeks off.
Look, officially around 15% of people in the US live in poverty, and if even just 15% of women didn't have children, that would hugely affect the birth rate. But that's discounting the fact that young people are on average poorer and have worse jobs. Then account for the fact that wages are stagnant and that many of these people will never be much richer. Also, in this model of yours, people who are not poor, but would be made poor by having a small number of children, also shouldn't have then.
Pretty soon as much as 50% of the population doesn't get to reproduce. In a modern, RICH, developed country, I would say, it would be doing a huge disservice to the continuation of the species not to offer common sense protections and perks (paid maternity leave, free kindergarten and decent public schools, etc.) to people who are willing to put themselves through the inconvenience of having children. But somehow the Americans are AGAIN the only country that needs convincing.
Psyborg 0009 you are clearly a man so make this easy for yourself by staying out of this and stop acting like you understand what it’s like. Us woman don’t have a lifetime to just wait to have kids because with old age it gets harder to have children. And a whole lot of us are not born into a rich life like Kylie Jenner and can just afford the easy lifestyle she was born into. Some of us have it hard and is it so much to ask for woman to not have to lose their jobs just so they can be with their children and recover from having a baby?
Psyborg 0009 mommies can’t do that when they have to chose between keeping food on the table for them and going to work regardless if they want to be with their kids or letting them starve to death and finically struggle. Didn’t you only spew your idiocy onto the comment section and not watch the video? This video is about moms who WANT to be able to spend fucking time with their kids but can’t do that if they can’t get paid either? Not everyone is fucking millionaires and can stay at home with their kids all damn day at age 22.
That's it. I'm moving to Sweden.
Go for it. It's about to become a third world country in 20 years.
General Skittles Yeah, Sweden might become a third world country but your country already is.
MookieGAMING
Rape? Rape is all around the country. Especially here in the USA but as long as you're white, you get a nice slap on the hand.
Damn I wonder how Genevieve Wood’s Mom would feel about her daughter likening motherhood to a “hobby.” 🤔
Not true Canada has a Minimum of a year, so about 52 weeks! And the job is secured for a minimum of 2 years....And in the province I live (Quebec) we have subsudized daycares (you basically get to pay a sum depending on your salary)!! and if you have a risk pregnancy you get a disability leave and its paid 100%....and we have paternity leave.
Comic Book Guy what a crazy point of view. You should realize that our society depends on people be able to raise children. Derp.
yarnpower ....you can still raise your children and go to work while they go to childcare.
Koka Albanova ...I have a question. So what’s to prevent a women in your country from having a new child every 2 years and effectively never having to go back to work...but still collecting a paycheck?? Are there limits to how often you can receive benefits?
@Comic Book Guy and if it weren't for Women, no men would exist.
The heritage chick - of course she doesn't care because she's a rich white lady... I can't. Ya'll saw the picture... SMH.
Christa Kwon let's just leave it at rich lady. Because there are a lot of white ladies who don't relate to and despise that woman as well. Stick together for change.
I'm a rich white lady and I support paid family leave. We get up to 18months in Canada. I hope Americans families can get the same soon!
This is why I don't have children, and probably why I won't ever have kids unless I move outside the US. Not because I don't want children, I'm extremely maternal and have wanted children since I was a teenager, but because I could never afford them, and if I could afford them, I'd never want to abandon them to go to a job I hate. If I had children, they'd be my job until they are old enough for kindergarten. :/
I would have loved if she had asked that woman from the Heritage Foundation "What about the women that don't have a choice and cannot afford to leave their work for 6 months or a year?" She kept talking about it being a choice and yes it is to women and families that have the privilege to choose what's best for their particular families. But what about those women who have no support system and are dying to be with their kids but have to go to work because they need to feed their family and pay rent, etc. What she said made sense to a particular type of mother but it definitely cannot be generalized. I consider myself lucky in the care and education I got from my parents but that doesn't mean I'm oblivious to other people's struggles.
Magali Najarian Silly, the poors don't deserve children. 😧
Breeding is a choice. If you can't afford it, don't make it.
it still was the woman choice to have them
@@redexduke9023 Not always. There are so many women who got pregnant as a result of rape, or poor sex education who did not get to make that choice. And if they chose not to have them, the pro-life forces in the government essentially go out of their way to ensure the woman has no choice but to have the baby.
THEY DESERVE THE "TIME" BUT NOT THE UNEARNED PAYCHECK!
How is it possible to have a mother.. a sister.. a girlfriend.. a wife.. and to still rape women? I don't understand that. Completely void of empathy. Completely inhuman.
The same can be said for taking care of an elderly parent. When companies pay CEOs millions but cannot take care of their employees there is something wrong.
I try not to look too much into conspiracy theories or that sort of thing. When you combine lack of maternity leave, unaffordable healthcare, school systems taught on a federally mandated linear model, tax breaks for high earners, and tax brackets in general (which operate on a basis of income: if you have an annual salary of between say $70,000 and $90,000, you pay the *same* percentage of taxes.. which is why if you get a raise you may end up paying more in taxes, making your paycheck less than your previous earned income). Not to mention the new tax bill, the lack of school funding, privatizing roads and putting in red light cameras -- which effectively remove a city's ability to control these previously public services, often rendering the streets not being serviced and parking fees becoming over inflated, not to mention your inability to contest a red-light ticket in court). THEN add all of this to an increasingly untrained police force, body cameras, cameras on street corners, restrictions on internet content and throttled speed. Tariffs on imports from our allies... the administration of passionate military and FBI career politicians being removed from office. Our economy is going to take decades to recover. College grants being throttled, medical insurance being removed, federal assistance being removed. The middle and lower classes are going to become even less likely to succeed. There *will* be fewer doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, biologists, geologists, businesses, technical writers, nurses, farmers, teachers and professors, service professionals and all professionals in general. Anybody who is attempting to serve their community and themselves in general will need to weight the pros and cons of going to college.
I mean our minimum wage workers who are underemployed *need* to be on federal assistance. "The unemployment gap has decreased," they say. But it is because older citizens have to take jobs bc their insurance has been removed. But many of those jobs are part-time, meaning people are still underemployed.
Instead of raising the minimum wage, our federal assets are overburdened because people are unable to provide -- and do not start the "oh they would still be on assistance bc they're lazy" because I ASSURE you many people who take a job at Walmart is there because they want to be. The "American dream" so many lower and middle income students strive for will become the "Can I afford it" class. There are people who say things like "I don't know why so and so makes excuses for not taking out loans and justify it as a reason to not go to college". Upperclass students whose parents can afford to keep one parent at home, all the while receiving work-compensated health care while even being able to afford it out of pocket -- and send them to college out of pocket, buy them necessities and get them jobs will rule the professional world. Meanwhile they are trying to bring back industries which are unsustainable in America -- timber, steel, aluminum -- while also rendering sustainable power -- nuclear, solar, wind, hydro -- unable to operate.
There will soon be such a divide between classes because lower income people will be unable to adjust to the economic burdens. There is already such an insane class divide and a lot of people are unaware just how bad it is. Some upper class people have the weirdest names because it doesn't effect them.. look up "all star lacrosse names 2016" and you'll be like "Pilot Caring"? What the fuck. AND NOW the ability to literally genetically create your own child. There are geneticists who warn that there will be two species on human.
I mean what on earth is even happening. It blows my mind. I used to be so proud to be American. We are supposed to HELP our neighbors and countrymen. But it's clear it has never been that way, and it will continue to not be that way.
Holy shit well said
We also need to rethink the 40 hour work week, and being in the office all that time. More jobs should offer work from home options. And some jobs are very cyclical. You're very busy at some times and very slow at others. You're expected to stay longer and get your work done when you're busy, and you're also expected to sit in the office for 40 hours a week when you're really slow. It's time you could be spending with you're family, and would reduce a lot of stress. I'm not sure why it matters if you meet your deadlines and get then job done.
Many good points.
Tell that to factory workers forced to work 10 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week on their feet. You complain about a desk job with AC...you are disgusting.
@@jimbritttn That is why the Great Resignation is happening. Companies are waking up and offering work from home options. They have to if they want workers.
"There is a willingness to pay taxes because you see that you will benefit from this." How can we cultivate this attitude in the US?
Bangladesh is a developing country. Not nearly as rich as murica, yet we get 4-6 months of paid maternity leave, both in gov and non-gov places. Why are you so different?
i would think caused the us is different with the political sphere and the fact that there economies are different along with more programs such as the us military and navy
And that's why you can't drink the water there and the sanitation's so bad. Misallocation of funds, work, and time.
@@bluebronx2000 nice try. Failed.
cause it a europeans controlled socialist country
I can't believe that in USA these things are allowed but considering things such as health and education are private or cost so much I wonder why noone says anything.
I'm in Uk and my colleague went to maternity leave one month before the birth of her little girl. For three months she'll receive (mandatory) full pay and then for other three about 70% but she will be able to stay at home until 1 year from the birth without losing her job. She won't be loosing 20K for raising her child....
I find this so sad. 30 years ago in England I got 9 months full pay and 3 months part pay. 30 fucking years ago. No one should have to go to work until they have finished breast feeding. America is a horrid place.
"no one does it better than America"
::interviewer looks at the camera, deadpan::
Wtf is she talking about ? Oh right no one does ridiculous and shameless better than America
The woman from the Heritage Foundation is so delusional that I just cannot take it...
As an American, I fully admit that we are a VERY BACKWORDSASS COUNTRY! You don't have to be a "liberal" to agree that parents, particularly mothers, shouldn't have to choose between their kids or their jobs in this day and age. It frustrates me to no end when people say that they want to support the idea of the nuclear family, but at the same time, don't support policies that could make that possible FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE. Calling it an " entitlement" is wrong on so many levels. You bet your ass that mother is "entitled" to a few months at home with her baby and not worry if she'll even be able to continue to support her household financially. Gone are the days when all women were stay at home moms. EVERYTHING IS TOO F****** EXPENSIVE TO LIVE LIKE THAT NOW! The REAL reason my generation will have so few children is because their are NO INCENTIVES TO HAVE ANY! Why have them when that decision may destroy your financial future? Why should a woman in this age have to sacrifice EVERYTHING she had spent so long building in her career? Why should only ONE PERSON be financially responsible for an ENTIRE FAMILY? It has been PROVEN time and again by EVERY OTHER COUNTRY ON FACE OF THE EARTH that IT IS POSSIBLE FOR FAMILIES TO HAVE BOTH! And I'm sick and tired of the same old arguments parroted out by people who have NO IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR AVERAGE PEOPLE TO SUPPORT A FAMILY!
People often blur the lines between "asking for handouts" and asking for genuine and needed help. Nobody gives a shit about a parent or the babies after the child is born. And until parents get leave by law, I'll believe all pro lifers are giant hypocrites. I hate how america has become so goddamn ignorant to those who aren't born into money and who struggle. It's just like a room of men deciding whether birth control is beneficial for them or not. Yet, birth control would control the population, let wouldbe deadbeat fathers never become a father and those who can't afford a kid, never have to. It's so fucking stupid. Oh, let's make it a law that you have to go to school, and if you don't we'll throw you into jail (yes, that happens on the becca bill). And the education you get, will be completely meaningless after the fact. And yet we all wonder why the depression and suicide rate is so high for teens and YA. I refuse to have a kid. Especially in the us.
Parents SHOULD have to choose. The answer is to work, save, and THEN have children when you are able to. Not create life whithout having the means to even support it and then DEMAND that others help raise your family lol
3 months is not enough...
This is why they need to look after their own affairs before meddling with others.
My younger sister had to be put in childcare/daycare very early on as a baby since my parents unpaid leave ran out. Over the few weeks she was there she was abused daily by the other children and the caretakers knew, didn't do anything, and didn't tell us. A few weeks after my mom picked her up and noticed scratches all along her back and she was bleeding, when she questioned the daycare they just said "Well that wasn't us." We were lucky that my grandma had just recently retired around that time and she took the role to care for my sister.
Nobody cares.
Fuck you. Little troll.
EDIT: I meant that to Who Cares, not to Naokisf.
this is why i cant put my son in child care we switched three fucking times. It pisses me of thinking of what i did I apologize for the the language, We had an in care sitter and two different daycare's. It was horrible. My son is in therapy sessions now. The word through the early intervention program was : They do not care about teaching your child... they rather receive a check and have him sit in a high chair. If that's the case I rather stay home with him. i want so bad for him to interact with other children Im petrified I dont trust any one. Imagine leaving for the daycare center getting their to find out every one left and your baby is alone or shes not their on time so your written up at work or how about your leaving for work the sitter sits on her phone and the baby nearly falls off the damn couch. Unbelievable. I nearly killed everyone.
NaturelDeese I'm so sorry about your awful experiences, truly. It makes me realise how terrible things really are in the US for mothers, and families as a whole
That sounds horrible. I work in a nursery in Germany (from 10 months to 3 years). I love my work and I'm glad that I can work in what's the most fun, enriching and one of the most important jobs for me. Still I firmly believe that families should have the possibility to spend as much time as possible with their children. It's precious and you can never get that time back. It saddens me when I hear reports of mistreatment of our biggest treasure as a society by professionals. It's a shame. We should never underestimate the influence we have on the lives of these children.
I live in Canada, the maternity leave is 12 months. Paternity is 6 weeks. Both parents can stay home. Also free health care!!!!
Family comes above everything! I don't know when governments will be able to understand and act accordingly!
Maybe one of the reasons many Americans are so opposed to greater taxes is that they don't see the benefits for themselves, as a great amount of the taxes go to cooperate subsidies.
MonsterKat exactly. I pay so much in taxes (about 30% of my paycheck) and live paycheck to paycheck, but yet I make “too much money” to benefit from any of the taxes I pay in. If I’m going to be paying taxes, I better be able to benefit from it as well.
And what kills me about most private health insurance companies won't include coverage for birth control! It makes me sick.
In NB Canada if you go to your Family Doc and say you have low/no income they will offer you "Compassionate Pricing" for Birth Control pills or the Patch making a 3 month supply only $10 full price would be $90.
It's sad our society doesn't value family and children more like the other countries do. Im a stay at home mom by choice my husband works full time. He took 1 week off unpaid when we had our 4 kids. When my babies turned 6 weeks old I always cried with gratitude that I've never had to deal with the pain of leaving my child. My heart goes out to the woman who have no other choice. And I will say I have a much much greater bond and connection with my kids then my husband that works 12 hours a day.
That Heritage Foundation woman is so tone deaf. I was waiting for her to say “If women want to keep their wages and have children, they should just hire a live-in nanny.”
OMG, that video got me really worried! I'm from Canada and when I saw the 17 weeks leave, I was like: "What the hell? Wasn't it a year??" Went online to read about it and yes we only have about 18 weeks (not 17, a least in Quebec), but we also have another 32 weeks of parental leave! That should have been mentionned in the documentary. So, almost a year (50 weeks).
I can’t imagine this mother’s pain. Even if it wasn’t the daycare’s fault and let’s say it was SIDS so it could have even happened while home with her I am sure she blames herself everyday cause she probably thinks if he was home with her she could have caught it earlier and did something faster to save him. It has to be heartbreaking to be so excited to see your baby and to get there to him dying/dead and knowing you weren’t with him in his last moments. My heart is crushed for her. It makes me so terrified of eventually putting my baby in daycare.
in Pakistan its 90 days with full pay
Moving
In Hungary it's 3 years
Rebeka Szücs
def moving lol
+Rebeka Szücs can u tell more about Hungary im half Hungarian and im moving there
In a land where rape is a national sport, and their hobbies include hiding Bin Laden, fucking boys and taunting India, they beat the u.s. at something.