Paternity Leave for Polish Fathers
17January 21, 2010 by Aleksandra Łuczak
Glossary:
- maternity leave – urlop macierzyński
- paternity leave – urlop tacierzyński
Since January 1 2010 Polish fathers caring for a child, are entitled to paternity leave.
The father of the child is entitled to such a leave, but no longer than when the child turns 12 months old.
The extent of paternity leave will be gradually increased and will equal:
- in 2010 and 2011 – 1 week.
- from 1 January 2012 – 2 weeks.
I am interested in your opinions about this amendment. I wonder whether the opinions of famale and male students will differ.
Have your say!
Category miscellaneous | Tags: Civil Law, Employment Law, Labour Law
In my opinion it’s very good idea. Women need Men’s help during first year of maternity. Particularly with the first child when everything is new and strange. Work was a great excuse (even though it wasn’t true) why fathers couldn’t stay at home. Now everything is clear and regulated by law; so Men, take care of the cradles! 🙂
Yeah, but…
Most men simply cannot cope with all the everyday duties and house jobs on their own. Some of them are afraid that they will hurt the baby. Some of them simply don’t know where the baby’s milk is and how to heat it up. Or, perhaps they pretend they don’t know.
I agree that paternity leave may help build the close realtionship between the father and the baby, but I don’t believe many men will be keen on the idea.
I hope I am wrong.
I think that is a very good solution. Fathers should deal with their newly conceived children because it builds a very strong bond between them. I think that in times where we have equality of both the father and mother should have the right to maternity / paternity leave. I think that a large proportion of men will benefit from this privilege. Nowadays it is often that women want to work and and men want to care for their children so this provision help them to do this.
I think it’s a great idea! Polish law is trying to keep up with global changes and headway in Poland speeds up. Discrimination of men as fathers (equal parents) falls off. This amendment should help women too. I think they do a lot too much. They work, they foster children and they deal with house. Women don’t have enough time for themselves and men (as a father and husband) have to relieve their wifes. That is a great forecast for Polish society.
The first 12 months of child’s life is an exceptional time, when the baby requires special care. Therefore the possibility of taking the paternity leave by the dad seems appropriate. It’ll enable the dad to take care of the children when the mother can’t do it.
I think it’s a good idea.
This solution will help both, women and men. Now fathers will help in home, and they will also have time to take care of their babies.
I also think that the paternity leave will help to build the close relationship between the father and the baby, and it’s very important, as you all know.
Fathers also supposed to have a right to leave and spend time with their children as women do.
It is great idea. Fathers can help a lot for instance take care about children and home. When one couple have a child, woman usually spend more time with baby. I must agree with K.M. that paternity leave will help to bulid close relationship between father his child.
It is great idea. Fathers can help a lot for instance take care about children and home. When one couple have a child, woman usually spend more time with baby. I must agree with K.M. that paternity leave will have very good impact on relationship between father and his child.
I think it’s very good idea. Womens nee Men’s to look after children and help during first year of matternity.In this time wit first child when everything is new and strange work and other activity can be a reat excuse. But I think that fathers should stay at home with their newly borned children because it builds a very strange, charm relationships and sometimes makes new friendships.
I hope, that Men will take are of their children and use paternity leave to change their relations with family.
Comment from Ula:
It’s a very good idea! Finally the women have time to do their careers. Every man can have test as a “housewife.” They can have better bond with child. The man can find out why women complain often and are very tired.
In my opinion, paternity leave is quite a good solution. We know that our labour market is very complicated and difficult and the opinion that husband must earn for all family and home is not actual. But can man manage with care of a little baby and replace the ,,maternal instinct”?
hm, for my opinion it’s a simple fact that should be obvious for the lawmakers. If a children have both of their parents so why both of them can’t raise the children? Mother may be more important in the first 12 moths of children’s life but father is also important to build the relationship with his children. But in my opinion 12 months of life should be changed into 24 because as I said father is less important in first 12months of child’s life, but he might be more useful after the first year of the child’s life when its mother need to go back to work.
As as future mother I’m totally disaponted that paternity leave is so short. When baby is born it needs a lot of attention from both of the parents. This attention is needed not only for the very first weeks of it’s life but also for it’s first months. That is why the minimum paternity leave should be at least a couple of months. This is already understood in some countries where governments supports young parents. This is a good example for our legislation. More social care, more happy families.
I think that this is another step towards equality between women and men. Although the majority of women carry the burden associated with pregnancy, men wanting to help should have this opportunity. Nowadays, more and more a woman earns more than a man so why should a man can not be on paternity leave:)
It is a very good solution! As we all know now we are bothering with quite tough financial situation, and also more and more frequently we are facing the fact that in a family the woman is the main source of money, so a very good idea is to give a choice to parents which one of them will take care of their newborn. Maybe they will have a possibility to be happy with their precious, while there is no danger of beeing a bunkrupt.
This is great idea , fathers should have paternity leave . Often, family situation requires that the father zostałn at home and took the child .
It’s a brilliant idea I think. Long time ago, when a men was working one and wife was all day long at home it was clear that women had to bring up children. But now days are changing. Both women and men go to work. There is no discrimination. By the way a child has mother and father and their should spend time with child in equal parts.