Comments on: Fertility http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/ A Mormon Blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:01:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Hansen http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-163292 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:13:13 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-163292 #59 …yet

]]> By: Stephanie http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162171 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:47:56 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162171 Just have to say that I love the picture at the top of that link in #65

]]> By: E http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162164 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:10:33 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162164 #58: Britt, I love your comment and I agree.

]]> By: Mathew http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162160 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:04:34 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162160 Required reading for anyone thinking about alternative maternity models patterned after those in Europe: http://themamabee.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/more-working-mothers-better-birthrates/

]]> By: Daniel http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162158 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:53:52 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162158 #60,

Taxpayers of course. Unless private businesses and corporations wish to dole out such a plan of their own for their professional workers, which I highly doubt. Corporations are not family-friendly, at least not in the current form that we see today.

]]> By: MrsPeacock http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162149 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:22:44 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162149 #10 Melissa, because my insurance pays for IVF and gives me 3 months of short-term disability if I give birth to a child. Insurance pays nothing for adoption and I do not get short-term disability if I adopt a child, even if the child is a newborn. I could take 12 weeks of unpaid time off, though. Which I could certainly afford after an adoption that would cost $10k-$20k.

I am 29 and have been married for 4 years. I would like to have a child, but I still owe $25500 on my student loans, so I have to work, and childcare in this is $1200-$1500 a month for a newborn. It is a real pickle.

]]> By: kris http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162147 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:07:45 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162147 #60, StillConfused

Taxpayers who think it is a good idea to invest in families ie. allowing children to have time to bond with their parents in the year or so after birth pay for it. Many of them are actually happy to pay for it.

]]> By: Kristine http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162142 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:36:39 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162142 E, I got it. I’m just saying that the problem is in thinking that only “career-related” work counts. As others have pointed out, caregiving work is important and valuable to society, and yet we’ve chosen not to count it as “productive.” We could make a different choice (as, for instance, Scandinavian countries do, in paying for that work through taxation and government subsidies).

]]> By: StillConfused http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162137 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:14:32 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162137 #48… Who pays for that?

]]> By: Mathew http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/10/11/fertility/#comment-162136 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:06:02 +0000 http://bycommonconsent.com/?p=12635#comment-162136 “Why do people look beyond the cradle when they want to make an impact on the world.”

Because babies don’t negotiate multilateral disarmament treaty.

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