Author suggests childless women deserve 'meternity' leave

WFAA.COM ^ | 29 APRIL 2016 | SARA SCHLAGEL

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

An author is receiving backlash after voicing that childless women also deserve a maternity leave. The concept is deemed a "meternity" leave, and Meghann Foye makes her statement in an article in the New York Post.

Foye, 38, thought up the idea when she was a magazine editor and became "envious" of her co-workers who would leave to care for their children after their eight hour days. She said that she felt as if all of the childless workers had to then pick up the slack and work for ten or more hours a day.

[SERKIT]

Hubris and narcissism gave birth to self-absorbed. Let’s celebrate.

[miss marmelstein]

Um, I hate to break it to you but most women don't wake up at 50 and say: hey! they never told me I couldn't have children at 50 or 60! Even Cosmopolitan Magazine was honest about that. And since most women visit gynecologists on a regular basis who actually harp on reminding women about their window closing, I think you're trying to hand a rubber peach to a gullible child.

[mountn man]

Absolutely! And you get to demand the Obamacare laws regarding nursing. Your employer now must provide with time and a place to pump. Congrats! Ain’t liberalism grand?

HEY!!!...Where do I put this pump thingy?

I think I'll try here...ooh...

Ohhh!!!!!!

[MeganC]

If a woman adopts a child then many organizations do grant maternity or bonding leave.

Not seeing the problem or drama here so long as there’s a child involved.

[ResponseAbility]

****Foye, 38, thought up the idea when she was a magazine editor and became “envious” of her co-workers****

Thou shall not covet...

[MeganC]

Well said. I skipped the college/career path and went straight to the stay-at-home-mom path. And I’d never trade my six kids (yes!) for forty cats...ever!!!

[Telepathic Intruder]

The concept is deemed a "meternity" leave

More like a mentality leave.

[chuckee]

I think where there may be some resentment even more so than maternity leave is where others, meaning men and single women, in the workplace are called on more often to either travel or be on call for the company and supervisors tend to call less on women with children. Happens quite a bit at the aerospace company my daughter works for.She is on call more frequently and called on to travel more than her married with children counterparts.

[discostu]

Intel gives you sabbaticals every few years. About the same length. She just needs a new job.

[goodwithagun]

I paid around $500 for mine plus all the accessories and extra parts. However, if you’re on WIC fed gov will give you one for FREE! Then you can pump, claim you can’t produce even though you do, get $$$ for formula, and then sell the formula for profit while continuing to pump for your baby.

[goodwithagun]

FMLA covers leave for biological and adoptive children.

[vladimir998]

“Don’t go there, Vlad!”

Hey, inquiring minds want to know! Once the question is in my head I have to know what the answer is. Platypodes.

[txrefugee]

If it bothers this whiner so much, she should quit her job.

[vladimir998]

“And I’d never trade my six kids (yes!) for forty cats...ever!!!”

But now they can talk to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Me4j8jepk0

[miss marmelstein]

It’s easy to say as a stay at home mom. Business doesn’t deal with maternity issues well. Mom gets to go home but all the other workers have to scramble to do all of the missing employee’s work. I hate to tell you but it, does, indeed, cause resentment.

[miss marmelstein]

Ah, you avoided that trap!

[Reynoldo]

Would the plural be platyplii?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Don’t you already get “Pa”-ternity leave?

[firebrand]

To all those who won’t give children or working mothers a break: You. Have. No. Idea.

[SaraJohnson]

Socially and psychologically, her growth has been stunted along the way. We have a bumper crop of these growth stunted freaks in society today.