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Caitlin Ford
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“In the United States there is both a moral, and to some extent legal, expectation that parents provide for their children even after the children have come of age,” Trägårdh said. “But this expectation also means that parents have power over their children.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
“Nordic societies recognize that for individuals to give fully to their jobs as employees and as parents, they need time to rest, recuperate, and just enjoy each other’s company. This means giving workers—all workers, at the top and the bottom—substantial paid vacations every year.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
“Nordic nations have realized that it is in the best long-term interests of everyone, including businesses, to support families in raising children. After all, in the long run, happy family members are more productive, and businesses will have a wider pool of healthy, productive, well-adjusted workers to draw on in the future. So when it comes to granting parental leave after a baby is born, the Nordic approach is also quite different from the American.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
“In most other modern industrialized societies, including Finland, health care is considered a basic human right.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
“Other international organizations—the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Union (EU), the World Economic Forum—now encourage their member nations to guarantee their workers paid parental leaves and subsidized day care. They do so because it’s clear that these things are good for economic growth. Studies demonstrate the ways that family-friendly policies tailored to today’s realities benefit a country’s economy. Family leave policies and affordable day care increase women’s participation in the labor force, help employers retain workers, and improve the health of women and children.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
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