On May 20, 8:07 am, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msd.bigREMOVETHISlobe.ne.jp>
wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy
> has exploded. Flight director confirms that:
>
>
>
> >My (mostly female) staff have been jabbering on about ikumen this week
> >and have posted to the blog
> >http://preview.tinyurl.com/29kdac6
> >(http://www.businessjapanese.com/news/post/2010/05/14/
> >JBPPe69599e7a791e69bb8e291a1.aspx)
>
> >The "stay at home dad" tv dorama series seems to be one of the
> >reasons.
> >(for non japanese reading folk:http://tinyurl.com/24vpmkx)
>
> >Funnily (and worryingly) enough, I wasn't even aware that paid
> >parental leave even existed in Japan. Admittedly most Japanese men
> >can't utilize it for a variety of reasons.
>
> >http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/parental_2008_09.pdf (page
> >6 if you're lazy)
>
> >Turns out only Australia and the USA don't currently seem to have paid
> >parental leave.
>
> Oh, I love not being able to participate in this thread.

Well sure, but part of your taxes goes to financially support people
who choose to breed. I don't have kids (or plans for kids) either.