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Sounds to me like you are precisely saying, "screw the company".
Why should it be the company's responsibility to ensure new generations are born? And, don't you think that any woman's skills and competence can be matched by men? Why shouldn't a company hire a man instead of a costly woman?
Uh-huh...in the long run...assuming the company can last till the long run with the added costs you want to pile on top of them.
Well many countries like for example mine Sweden it works very well with maternity. But it all boils down to your belief in society if you see the connection that makes the society works. That companies can't work in a vacuum, that try for example to start a company in Somalia instead of USA and see how easy it is. And basic for societeis to work is children to be born and todays international competence, you can't afford wasting 50 % of the societys competence.
It is also boils down to fairness. Because children can't choose their parents. So either society take a responsibility for children or you end up with a socitey their who can start a sucessful business or ends up on the street is a lot based on badluck.
That having children is a very strong basic human instict, and that is because that we are all here. That we have all ancestors that didn't afford to have children and still had them. So if poverty and terrible life would stop people from having children no one of us would be here.
But today both my country Sweden and USA is rich to give ever child a change of a good life. Also how can how can you talk about personal responsibility to fail and sucessed if a childs destinity is so much based on the parents it is lucky to have?
That even if you dislike welfare you may see that you need welfare for children for a fair society.
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