The head of the Korean affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation recently pleaded with his countrymen and women to have more children. I like this part:
Korea needs to create a new social atmosphere to make a woman’s job and her home life compatible. We need to allow workers to spend more time with their families. The annual working hours of a worker in Korea is 2,357 hours, the longest in the world. We need to vitalise the public education system to reduce the financial burden of private education and other expenses for children. We need to provide financial support for families, such as a child allowance or a child-rearing allowance, even if only for a very short period.
You’ll notice universal daycare full-day learning is not on the list…
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I was at a wedding on the weekend and was speaking with a friend of mine who made a brilliant statement:
“Who says that a full time work week should be 40 hours or more? Especially for working mothers, we should change the number of hours to no more than 5 hours a day-that would be 20 hours a week, and then mothers could be home for their children when the kids get home from school. Who determined that 40 hours a week is what is needed to get benefits? We should be thinking about what our children need, not what we want.”
I love it.