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What About Women Who Want To Pursue Painting Or Spend More Time Making Love To Their Husband?

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By Amy Alkon
donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog.

What About Women Who Want To Pursue Painting Or Spend More Time Making Love To Their Husband?
A tweet about France’s supposedly superior policies for moms — which privilege people who make that choice over others and then send the bill to those mysterious folks called “other people.”

Screen Shot 2014-12-13 at 5.49.04 AM.pngNo, you really cannot have it all, nor should you be able to.

Choices in life are tradeoffs. With each choice you make you are forgoing another choice. France makes “magical” things happen — no forgoing. You can have two children and work 20 percent less at your job and still make the same money.

As Crid has pointed out here, there’s a piper to pay. France does not pay the full cost of their defense, putting only 2.1 percent of their GDP into it and having us as a backstop. Ted Galen Carpenter and Marian L. Tupy at Cato:

America’s already huge defense budget continues to grow. Counting the costs of the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. spends nearly as much on the military as the rest of the world combined. This year, defense spending will be roughly five percent of America’s almost $15 trillion GDP.

We also pay for France’s rock-bottom drug costs with higher drug prices in our country. (Sure, big pharma is into big profits, but research does cost a few shekels, too.)

About the “Waah, mothers should have it all” argument, Claire Cain Miller and Liz Alderman write in The New York Times:

Since Kerry Devine, 32, and her friends began having children, she has noticed a stark difference between her female friends in Auburn, Wash., where she lives, and those in England and Cyprus, where she grew up. In the United States, they almost all stopped working outside the home, at least until their children were in school. Yet, she says, she can’t think of a friend in Europe who left work after her children were born.

Ms. Devine quit her job after she had her first child, a girl, four years ago, because she thought 12 weeks of maternity leave was too short. “I just didn’t want to leave her in day care or pay for the expenses of it,” she said. When she gave birth to twin boys this year, a return to work — she had been a property manager for apartment buildings — looked even less plausible.

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Source:: Donkeyrock_BlurBlog


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