Your mothers should have ABORTED YOU!

All you politically correctnicks can’t handle the truth.

Get over it.

I’m all for equal rights as long as women take equal responsibilities, dress conservatively as men do in the office place, and don’t ask for extra rights such as pregnancy leave and child care.

I understand your point though – some women expect to have a more equitable division of labor at home, then decide to leave when the husband’s help doesn’t materialize. Although that still ruins it for the rest of working women who love their jobs AND want kids, I try to be understanding and feel sorry for the women whose husbands are just in it for the Kodak moments.

I think you will find that American women DO go back to work after pregnancy. The economy now requires it, especially with a child to support.

Your s-i-l may have delayed returning to work because the shared effort she had reasonably anticipated in caring for a family did not appear. But no matter how much she totes the barge alone, she will eventually be forced back into the workplace. At which time, she will still haul the home burden all by herself.

The Zinmeister’s warped view probably includes a wife who has ALL the home and child responsibility (maybe hired help) so that a “manly” parenting activity like attending his kid’s game doesn’t have to compete with “women’s work” like hauling a sobbing child with an earache and another infant to the pediatrician.

And nobody corrects him, because unlike men with courage, the men who work for him are afraid for their jobs if he finds out they take any responsibility for their families.

Oh, by the way, when the Reps have annihilated the middle class, this will all be much simpler. Underpaid people will have to work at what they can get, and take the pay they can get, kids or not, while people like him will not have to take care of their families. We’re pretty well on that slippery slope already, you will notice.

No, no. You don’t get it. They don’t hate women (much) until they become adults, and they don’t hate babies until they are born.

In both cases, women and babies are hated only because they have hung around too long. Obviously their own fault.

Women do not leave the workplace permanently in large numbers when they have a baby. The neanderthal in this article may want to consider that they leave HIS workplace because–as one employee pointed out–he is a jerk to women with kids while feeling free to enjoy his own.

No doubt this shortcoming leads to their belief that women are similarly limited. Fortunately, though, women consistently demonstrate and test with more developed multitasking skills.

Sadly, the greatest application of this ability is in supporting and raising alone the children of ex’s who are doing NEITHER. Nevertheless, it proves there is no basis at all for limiting a woman to one choice.

As a woman, I was disgusted at my sister-in-law because she was knowingly abusing the system and making all women look bad. The women I work with (Ph.D. chemists and engineers who love their jobs) who have have children have reported being grilled by managers, HR, and even coworkers throughout their pregnancy as to whether or not they would be coming back. No, they are going to chuck all that schooling and experience and milk the system. Good Lord. It’s disgusting that all women are being punished because of the bad apples.

How is taking 4 months off to give birth and care for your new pet any different from taking 4 months off to do anything else that you have CHOSEN to do?

I don’t think you realize that having a child (even if you have planned/chosen this) is not exactly like taking four months off to go to the Bahamas or something. You guys are making it sound like that a woman who’s pregnant is going out clubbing every night or is out sipping martini’s on the beach, rather than vomitting, having hormonal mood flings, could be suffering from depression or any other severe medical side-affects, nevermind the whole birth process which can be life-threatening and then adjusting to a newborn baby… Choosing to have a child isn’t the same as choosing to go visit Aunt Patty for a few months in Florida. You can’t liken something like cosmetic surgery to bringing a child into the world–it’s sad enough as is that the child grows up to say that his mother shouldn’t be covered for having done so.

On that note, I guess there aren’t any Employers who have a wife working somewhere who may become or have become pregnant? I’m sure if it was YOUR wife and YOUR child you’d want her to be covered.