[posabsolute]

Your wrong on how maternity leaves work, at least in Canada. Employers do not pay for the maternity, they just can't fire you (& you don't have to take the leave, lol like they force you to do that...)

It's the society (government) that pays for leaves. In canada it looks like this: the parental benefit is 7 weeks at 70%, followed by 25 weeks at 55% from salary on a maximum of 50-60k salary

For me what you say is backwards, but I guess you are right, there is clearly no gain in life for a mother to take the time she need to adapt & connect with her children for a year.

Then again it is the poors that suffer that cannot in anyway take some time off from work. Or maybe it is the argument that you should not pay for others.

I guess you can keep being skeptical

[TruthElixirX]

>It's the society (government) that pays for leaves.

So the companies in Canada don't pay taxes? Sign me up!

[a3n]

Like most decisions that society makes as a group, the cost is spread over most of the group, over time, so that more people can benefit from the policy. It's the very nature of how government works. Yes, because it costs everyone, such policies should be given close scrutiny. But merely being paid by everyone through taxes is not reason enough to condemn a policy; the logical conclusion to that is no government at all, which comes with its own costs and benefits.