Sure, many of us would like to spend more time with our families or benefit from paid parental leave.

Child care subsidies are up and paid parental leave has gone from 16 to 18 weeks, with more promised.

The Norwegian welfare state makes public health care free (above a certain level), and parents have 46 weeks paid parental leave.

If his proposal to grant city employees a year of paid parental leave is adopted, it would be another national first.

We will demand extended paid parental leave, better playgrounds, universal day care.

Employers have an opportunity to profit through positive publicity by offering paid parental leave.

However, among countries that do offer paid parental leave, almost all of them offer few or no benefits for fathers.

Single mothers need paid parental leave, day care, flexible schedules, child support, pediatricians with evening hours.

American workers under capitalism are not afforded many of the same economic benefits of other countries, including paid parental leave.

For both these reasons, the report calls for programs of paid parental leave and subsidized child-care.

Advocates of paid parental leave say it "would benefit the economy by reducing absenteeism and the need for new parents to go on welfare."

Parents receiving paid parental leave or income-tested social welfare do not qualify for this payment.

Such measure include mandating employers to provide paid parental leave for employees so that both parents can care for children without risk to their careers.

No amount of employer benevolence can substitute for a program of paid parental leave followed by access to affordable, quality child care.

Parental leave is unpaid - unless you have made paid parental leave a contractual right.

In France, mandated paid parental leave for child birth and adoption acknowledges society's obligation to nurture strong parent-child ties.

Rather than a radical subterfuge to push all mothers of infants out to work, the current proposal for six months' paid parental leave is too timid.

Apart from supporting mothers, this report also recommends states to introduce fully paid parental leave, thereby recognising the role of both parents in bringing up children.

Subsequently it was reported that government sources said that Gillard "argued in cabinet against paid parental leave and questioned the size of a pension rise".

You will be pleased to know, that we ARE introducing parental leave - and paid parental leave at that!

With a largely hands-off approach to family policy, the U.S. spends far less than other wealthy countries on child care while guaranteeing no paid parental leave.

After giving birth the first time, Dr. Block took paid parental leave and medical leave, missing two quarters and then "working ridiculously hard," she says.

The SDA also takes a strong position on the rights of women in workplace and since 1978 has advocated for the introduction of paid parental leave.