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appalachiablue

(41,054 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 09:03 AM Feb 2020

Finland To Give Dads Same Parental Leave As Mums

Source: BBC News

Finland's new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children. Paid allowance will increase to a combined 14 months, which works out as 164 days per parent.

Neighbouring Sweden has Europe's most generous system of parental leave with 240 days each after a baby's birth. Finland says it wants to "promote wellbeing and gender equality". Health and social affairs minister Aino-Kaisa Pekonen told reporters that "a radical reform of family benefits" had begun, with the aim of strengthening the relationship of parents from the start.

Pushing fathers to take their leave: Under the current system in Finland, maternity leave is 4.2 months, while fathers are given 2.2 months until the child turns two. However, on average only one in four of them take what they are given. The current plans now talk only of parental leave.

Each parent would receive 6.6 months' leave (164 days under Finland's six-day-week benefit system) and pregnant women would get an additional month's allowance. Parents would be allowed to transfer 69 days of their quota. Single parents would be allowed to use both allowances...



Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51384614



Sanna Marin, the Finnish Prime Minister said recently that her country still had some way to go to achieve gender equality. She also stated that too few fathers were spending time with their young children. Rest of Europe heading the same way...



- Fathers in Finland currently get 2.2 months of Parental Leave.
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Finland To Give Dads Same Parental Leave As Mums (Original Post) appalachiablue Feb 2020 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author RandiFan1290 Feb 2020 #1
Gasp! Paging Donnie Deutsch, soon Finns will be like Denmark! appalachiablue Feb 2020 #2
Don't they need the time to rake their forests? Botany Feb 2020 #3
how dare they care about families and kids!! Javaman Feb 2020 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #5
Not sure that would translate or scale up. Finland population 5 1/2 million. justhanginon Feb 2020 #6
The Scandinavians Rider3 Feb 2020 #7

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appalachiablue

(41,054 posts)
2. Gasp! Paging Donnie Deutsch, soon Finns will be like Denmark!
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 09:23 AM
Feb 2020

> FINLAND'S School System Is The Envy Of The World, It's Easy To See Why: Top of the Class, 2019

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016239954

Javaman

(62,442 posts)
4. how dare they care about families and kids!!
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 10:39 AM
Feb 2020

what are they some sort of "caring" nation. pfft!

now i'm depressed.

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justhanginon

(3,287 posts)
6. Not sure that would translate or scale up. Finland population 5 1/2 million.
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 12:27 PM
Feb 2020

U.S. population 327 million. New York city alone has a population of 8 1/2 million.

Rider3

(919 posts)
7. The Scandinavians
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 01:35 PM
Feb 2020

Know how to take care of their population. Here in the U.S., especially after you're born, it's "screw you."

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