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by ben1040 4792 days ago
If it was anything like when my child was born, my wife's company gives a base 8 weeks of parental leave to both men and women.

The extra 8 was paid for by the company's short term disability insurance policy, for a total of 16 weeks. Childbirth was deemed sufficient to trigger short term disability.

I imagine that's what happened here.