Finland has updated its family leave policy, now offering new parents seven months of paid family time regardless of marital status or gender.
“The model guarantees the child a place at the center of family benefits and promotes wellbeing and gender equality,” Aino-Kaisa Pekonen, minister of social affairs and health, says in a statement.
Women can be elected to government bodies and make excellent governing decisions? WHO KNEW! Not the U.S., that’s who. Sigh. “Sharing parent responsibilities in everyday life will become easier, and the relationship between both parents and the child will be strengthened from early childhood,” the release states. “The livelihood of families with small children will also improve,” Pekonen says.
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