Parenting-N-Families

Question by Ava’s Mummy TTC#2: Can my husband get centrelink while he is on parental leave for 6 months?
please note, I will be at home too (on maternity leave until baby is 9 months old) and hopefully receiving the parent payment.
My husband works fulltime and will be on parental leave, I am not entitled to maternity leave because I have not been with the company for more than 12 months so technically I am quitting my job and taking 12 months off before I start another job we have set up for me within my husband’s family…

Question by PaPaBEAR: Are there any fathers out there that have taken advantage of parental leave benefits?
If so, then what was the reactions from your employer and fellow employees, after you gave the required notice and upon your return (if you went back)? Did you feel targeted?

Question by c’mon, cliffy: Should parental leave be equally available to both mothers and fathers?

Sorry, I guess I should have said “paid” parental leave. My understanding is that the 12 weeks guaranteed under the FMLA is unpaid, but I guess it wouldn’t make a difference to peoples’ answers.

And Sarah, you must have your antagonism radar turned on high. I did an answers search under parental leave and couldn’t find this question. Perhaps you could point it out all the times it has been asked before. I’d be interested in the answers.

Men Don’t Leave [VHS]

Most directors use a hit film to launch an immediate career–but not Paul Brickman, who hit in 1983 with Risky Business then waited until 1990 to make this, his second movie. And it was a good, if overlooked one, starring Jessica Lange as a woman suddenly widowed and unable to cope. She moves her kids (including Chris O’Donnell in his film debut) from the suburbs to downtown Baltimore, where they develop urban survival skills much more quickly than she does. Most of the plot centers on her inability to open up to a man (Arliss…

Question by molloy: How long is a maternity/parental leave where you are?
In Canada, we have one year for a maternity leave. I was just wondering if this was the case in other countries too.
Oh, please tell me where you are too. Thanks.

-6 weeks!!!??? That’s immoral!!!
in the U.S. it isn’t a paid leave????

Question by Melissa: Do you have to reapply for parental leave after maternity leave is over?
through EI in Ontario
Why is mat leave only 15 weeks, do you have to reapply for parental leave, which I believe is 35 weeks?

Question by New: Can I overlap my company provided parental leave with state provide paid leave?
I am wondering if I could get paid time off from my company (4 weeks ) and also get California state provided parental leave at the same time?