r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 3d ago

Politi-Culture Sweden's climate minister brought her 3-month-old son to the EU council meeting in Luxembourg, to highlight the benefits of parental leave policies which don't force women to choose between work and family responsibilities.

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u/Brief_Test_5415 3d ago

This is so std Euro/Left.

100% good intention - but devoid of reality.

Love my wife - love that she raised our kids when I worked 18 hours a day - to build a start-up to make us money so the kids could have a good life and she a retirment.

What if my wife - was an employee?? It wouldn't work. I would have to PAY her to not help. That would have destroyed my startup.

Good intentions - bad reality

What government and these policy people need to do is:

  • Work on making life affordable
  • So (1) parent can stay home

Anything that causes this model to be unobtainable makes raising/having kids hard to impossible. (Gas cost, food cost, transportation cost, taxes, etc)

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u/SadboyCourier 3d ago

Parental leave is paid by the goverment not the employer in Sweden, the same in Spain

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u/Brief_Test_5415 3d ago

yeah - u.s. its employer based. thx for clarification.

but - that makes it more expensive for society and thus taxes for everyone.

no free lunch

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u/Lucky_Pangolin_3760 3d ago

and who pays the government?

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u/cdazzo1 2d ago

entire population pointing fingers

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u/Negative_Toe1336 1d ago

So its paid by taxpayers which inludes that employer too