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0 pointsoldsecondhand4y ago0 comments

It's a legacy of socialist systems where you can have 2 years of paid maternity leave and then go back to your previous job.

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notanzaiiswear4y ago· 2 in thread

Also I guess you HAVE to go back to your job. Everybody has to do their part for society.

Aerroon4y ago

The Soviet Union also tried to encourage having children. Not only did they have maternity leave, there was even a 6% income tax on childlessness.

burntoutfire4y ago

Not true, at least not in Communist Poland. Jobless single men were sometimes prosecuted, but a stay-at-home-mom was something completely normal in families which could afford it (which there weren't that many of).

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