Solo la metà dei padri prende il congedo di paternità, con il reddito riguarda una “barriera significativa”, trova un nuovo studio
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41606185.html
di RealDealMrSeal
Solo la metà dei padri prende il congedo di paternità, con il reddito riguarda una “barriera significativa”, trova un nuovo studio
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41606185.html
di RealDealMrSeal
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__”Its data showed only a quarter of fathers take parents’ leave”__
I saw on another website its only 26% of fathers that take parental leave. Someone obviously missed up the first print and everyone else is just copying and posting headings
Honestly paternity leave should be longer than two weeks. It’s pathetic really. I took holidays and parental leave so over 30 days in total. Getting to spend that time together has brought us all closer to a family and helped my wife recover/bond better with our daughter while getting through the difficult first few weeks.
I took one week parental leave last month. I saved a bit the previous few months to have in an emergency cash fund for next months fallout of having less income. Buuuut considering that, I hope not to touch the emergency cash by the end of this month. I’ve been cutting out any extras like takeout coffee etc.
In reality I shouldn’t have to as I don’t go crazy with things like that anyway. It’s just very annoying that the scheme favours ‘those who have’ vs ‘those who don’t’ financially.
It’s not like wealthier parents love their kids more than those less fortunate.
I just used my holidays, paternity leave is not covered by my company so I was hardly gonna go on the what amounts to the dole for a couple of weeks after a newborn, took a month of holidays on full pay
Very few companies are covering paternity, parental and parents leave it seems. The system is confusing and wonder how many fathers even know that all three are available to them
Most of this study took place during COVID which would have skewed figures tremendously
Well, yeah – the benefit is in no way linked to your earnings and its unusual for employers to pay you while you’re on it, so for most people you can just take a giant pay cut to €289 per week while your costs are going through the roof, and there’s a decent chance your missus just took a similar pay cut.
There also isn’t really a culture of it for men in particular. I got a few funny looks when I said I’d be taking a whole month (2 weeks paternity and 2 weeks parents leave, out of the 9 weeks parents leave we’re in theory entitled to) on the latest kid, because I went back to work after 2 weeks before that and my head was just melted and my wife wasn’t ready for it.
I can imagine telling colleages “Yeah, I’ll be off for 11 weeks now” if I took the 2 weeks paternity plus 9 weeks parents leave (which you have to take within the first 2 years of the kids life).
In case people are confused:
Paternity leave gives new parents 2 weeks off work. You can take time off if you are employed or self-employed, and can start the leave any time in the first 6 months after the baby’s birth. You can also take paternity leave when you adopt a child. (PAID)
Parent’s leave entitles each parent to 9 weeks’ leave during the first 2 years of a child’s life, or in the case of adoption, within 2 years of the placement of the child with the family. (PAID)
Parental leave lets parents take unpaid leave from work to spend time looking after their children. You can take up to 26 weeks’ parental leave for each eligible child before their 12th birthday. (UNPAID)
I took all of my parental leave and parents leave back to back, so that was 11 weeks. We had twins and we’ve an older child, so we needed it.
I then received a letter from Revenue saying that they were reducing my tax credits by €370 and my upper rate threshold to €42,100 because I’d claimed parents benefit.
The whole thing seems very petty. I’m taking time off to support my family, which is the right thing to do. However, Revenue sees it as a luxury that should be penalised.
My company gives 6 months on full pay which is amazing. I’d nearly go again, or at least find a 17 1/2 year old to adopt.
The best way to remove the gender pay gap is making paternity and maternity leave equal.
Women get quietly ruled out of promotions due to the idea that they may take maternity leave after getting the job, which is obviously sexist. You remove this bias by extending mandatory paternity leave.
Edit: what happens if two men have a child? Or two women? Do two women get two maternity leaves and do both men only get the shite paternity leave afforded to some?
The two weeks came in just before our youngest was born. I took another week AL on top of that. So three weeks. The child was diagnosed at birth with a lifelong rare disease and we spent a week in hospital as a result of an unrelated serious infection acquired during multiple hospital trips in and out for the newly diagnosed condition. All the time my spouse was trying to breast feed the baby and the older kids all under 7 were at home getting cycled through childcare by aunts, grandparents and me. I got back to work after 3 weeks as an absolute shell of a ruin of a man. I was grateful though for the increased paternity leave. And I really, really think we need paternity leave and maternity leave increased greatly to look more like Sweden.
I’m lucky to enough to be working somewhere where you can take 12 weeks, full pay paternity leave, whenever I eventually have a child. It needs to be recognised that people don’t have the same supports raising a child as they did in the past. In the past only one spouse would be working, you’d also be more likely to be living next to siblings, parents etc. who could help out, not so much anymore.