Maternity leave discrimination

Not really a rant at the gov, just a general rant and eye rolling excercise.

Maternity leave is discriminating against women, because employers would rather not employ or promote women of child bearing age.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article4333479.ece

The solution - increase the length of paternity leave. The above article mirrors my views exactly. What is the small business to do - has anyone stopped to consider them, the bureaucratic hassle, the elven safety nightmare, the disruption to all the other workers, the increased expense of finding other people to fill in while they take the time off on leave.

Fathers are becoming increasingly marginalised says another article. I'm sorry, but most fathers DON'T WANT THE TIME OFF WORK, THEY WANT TO GET BACK TO WORK, AND LEAVE THE CHILD REARING TO THE MUM.

As incredibly sexist as you may think this is, its a simple biological fact - mothers raise, fathers hunt and gather. If you can't afford to take a few years off to raise a child, without relying on government hand outs, then don't.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2301133/Fathers-'increasingly-marginalised'-in-children's-upbringing.html

Frankly, the chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Nichola Brewer talks a complete load of PC twaddle, with the base line assumption that fathers should spend more time at home with their children. Has anyone asked them. Or are we all so emasculated now, that we daren't say that we want to go back to work, and let the nurturers raise our children.

Is this the answer to increasing family life, to decreasing the number of broken homes, and single parent families. Of course it isn't. We are creating a society of people who think they deserve what every body else has, that they have a right to it and that someone else should provide it for them. The school child who keeps the baby, still goes to school, has a creche provided for them, and still has money for a 'social life' factored into their benefits allowance.

This is another example of social engineering that can only end one way. Worse than what it is now. All these people whose jobs rely on saying the stupid things, like fathers need more time off, should be consigned to the politically correct dustbin, benefits and allowances for people who are not prepared to take responsibility for their own lack of forethought should be demonstrably cut, and these people made to fend for themselves, and the equillibrium should be allowed to be re established.

"The economic penalty for fatherhood is too high" says Ms Brewer. So don't have children. If you can't afford it, who says you have a right to have children. Why should everyone else support you in your right to have children. You want them - commit to it, sacrifice, scrimp and save, don't have so many.

"Companies should be made to consider the economic benefits of flexible working!" There aren't any. No, really, there aren't. It just means we have to employ more people to get the same amount of work done, as we did before.