pressured to leave the kid and come back to work that's the sick social cycle and these men wanted to stay home with their kids but they felt like they couldn't why stereotypes they don't want these stereotypes but they feel trapped by the sick social cycle so how do we get dads to be present engaged and involved we take the leave that's it paid parental leave has been implemented over and over and over again and it's great because it's an experimental condition you didn't have paid leave and then you did when germany and sweden implemented leave for everyone that they found that the parents were happier people wanted to have more kids it boosted father's emotional investment and connection with infants and it didn't economically break the place it actually did fine fun sidebar pfl actually increases fertility rates they didn't even think about that you probably didn't think about that little sperm nugget did you that's right if you give people pfl they want to have more kids so you want to have more people born you can do that people felt like they were safe to have a family without hurting their incomes their businesses their co-workers or their social standing and it turns out if you give people just a little stipend they spend it which helps the economy keeps families out of poverty keeps the kid fed water diapered and entertained and of course allows the parents to be say it with me now present engaged and involved in NUMBER_TOKEN california rolled out a massive paid family leave program again experimental condition it increased women's employment and wage earnings it increased employer attachment as in people stayed at their employer longer it increased time spent with children of course lowered the risk of poverty by NUMBER_TOKEN increased household income by NUMBER_TOKEN percent had less food insecurity amongst californians and fewer people were using social services long term new jersey also implemented a program and found similar effects in surveys of the population they found here in california NUMBER_TOKEN percent of businesses reported a positive or neutral effect on productivity when they implemented this NUMBER_TOKEN reported neutral to positive employee morale and NUMBER_TOKEN said the costs did not change at all or actually went down and it's spreading here in the us because it's good for everyone economically sociologically pfl it's a big deal and it's awesome being a good dad a good partner and a good employee all at the same time could you ask for more those couple extra hours every day when dads or partners take the kids to school deal with them when they're sick you're spreading your parental resources around by having two parents to do that ultimately if people have paid family leave they become present engaged in involved parents because they have to be they're home and if more than one parent is present engaged and involved the kid is gonna benefit and that is why we need to smash some stereotypes give people leave and let dads be dads even if those dads are not male because it doesn't matter asking what a dad does for a kid is like asking what grandma does for a kid or what a mom does for a kid or what a pet does for a kid we want to quantify it but the number of things are so complex so individual cultural and ethnically influenced socio-economically dependent that it's impossible to say that dads provide x and i can get that if the dad goes to work by doing why dads need to be present engaged and involved before i wrap up
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