[Tax-chick]

if women get maternity leave, men should get paternity leave

See, but that assumes that the only really important thing either men or women do is paid labor. That's nonsense, and more to the point, ultimately destructive of a society - talk to some of our immigration-fixated FReepers.

"Equal rights" to be a wage-slave? And leave my kids with an illegal-immigrant sub-minimum-wage-slave? No thanks! I want "unequal rights" to be a mother, because otherwise our society is toast! You definitely want ME, and not the alternatives, raising the next generation of voters!

[Cathryn Crawford]

That's not at all what I'm assuming. I know that some families have to work to make it. Both parents.

To give moms maternity leave and deny the same right to fathers is sexist.

[najida]

"Equal rights" to be a wage-slave? And leave my kids with an illegal-immigrant sub-minimum-wage-slave? No thanks! I want "unequal rights" to be a mother, because otherwise our society is toast! You definitely want ME, and not the alternatives, raising the next generation of voters!
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Even more so, I want YOU raising those who will be taking care of me in the nursing home.