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House GOP memo blasts Whitmer’s paid family leave proposal as ‘summer break for adults’
(michiganadvance.com)
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Do they think that birthing & taking care of a newborn is like "summer break"???
For the billionth time: get fucked, GOP.
Yes, because they are mostly old white men who offload that to their wife and/or nanny
I took two weeks off after my first son was born. That was definitely NOT a vacation. Obviously, I didn't have to go through the really hard part (giving birth). To help my wife rest, I'd take any nighttime crying sessions plus half of the daytime ones while I was home. Getting up at 11pm, 1am, 1:30am, 1:50am, 3:30am, 3:50am, etc was not a vacation by any stretch of the imagination.
I was exhausted and stressed having to take care of this little one whose very life depended on me. It was a rough adjustment. I'm very happy to have had my boys, but anyone who thinks having a baby is akin to a vacation either offloads all the real work to someone else or takes some really horrible vacations.
Yes, they do. Because they have a whole team of people to take care of their kids and household for them. We're talking about people who if they've ever touched a cleaning product it was likely decades ago....