I took a week and a half off while my wife was recovering and to spend time and help out with that new little girl that come into our lives. But 6 months? LOL!
I have no problem with a man taking a week or two after a child is born. A mother should take all the time she needs, and he should help her with that even (or especially) if she decides never to go back to work.
I have a serious problem with a guy who would take that length of time off.
We made sure our babies arrived on the weekend. ;-) My husband didn’t miss a day of work.
Ok, I exaggerate. He didn’t miss a day with the first two because they were born on the weekend.
Our third child was born late at night on a Wednesday. So he did take one vacation day on Thursday to take care of the other 2 while I was in the hospital overnight. I was home with the new baby Thursday night. My husband went to work on Friday.
My kids, and nieces, and nephews, all have luxuries with parental leave that were non-existent 30 + years ago. It wasn’t easy back then, but we managed. I did hire a trusted teenage neighbor to help me with my kids some days, because we had no family around.
I took one week vacation for each kid. Mot of it was at a time when I only had two weeks vacation. Then I went back to work.
Buttiwhatever his name is, is a loser.
I was born in 1939.
Raised on a Wisconsin Dairy FARM.
Next door farm wife was pregnant with 5th kid. She was on tractor working fields at 11 AM, when she was taken to hospital-—45 minutes away. Baby born before 1 PM. Back home for dinner.
She was BACK ON TRACTOR next day, with oldest daughter watching new born. She breast fed baby every 2 hours or so...
NO CELL PHONES-—NO ‘walkie talkies’-—
PAID to have a baby when you are EMPLOYED away from home????
WHAT A JOKE.