I have been ‘lucky’ to spend nine weeks home with Meg and babe. But why should this be luck or the grace of my employer? Why should it not be standard? ie, all parents are home for the first month or two, then they each take consecutive parental leave shifts? — The immediate counterclaim references the challenges to employers. - Which implies we value their challenges higher than those of the family and the mother. Our sympathies for employers seems misplaced.

- January 11 cont’d.