[FITZ]

I have kids and I think it's terrible the way so many take extended maternity leaves ---90 day leaves for a normal birth aren't uncommon. Women should make a choice ---stay home with their kids (a better choice if they can) or work. Expecting to dump on co-workers is totally wrong. I've worked in places where all summer vacations had to be cancelled because someone wanted a very long maternity leave ----including working fathers and mothers who had to deny their own children a long awaited trip.

[rogercolleridge]

I have kids and I think it's terrible the way so many take extended maternity leaves ---90 day leaves for a normal birth aren't uncommon. Women should make a choice ---stay home with their kids (a better choice if they can) or work. Expecting to dump on co-workers is totally wrong. I've worked in places where all summer vacations had to be cancelled because someone wanted a very long maternity leave ----including working fathers and mothers who had to deny their own children a long awaited trip.

You said it.... it's all about choice. I don't expect anyone to pay the consequences for the choices that I make -- and it should go both ways.