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ARTICLE · 17 MARCH 2023

More Than A Babysitter

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When my partner and I found out that we were expecting a baby, we sat down for a discussion about how long we would take off work. We're both professionals working demanding jobs...

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David Thompson Isaac
David Thompson Isaac
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When my partner and I found out that we were expecting a baby, we sat down for a discussion about how long we would take off work. We're both professionals working demanding jobs, so neither of us had the option of taking as long a leave as we would have liked. In the end, we decided that my partner would take the first ten months, and I would take the following two months – still not as long as either of us wanted (and still not an equal division of labour) but long enough that my partner could get back to her job and I could get some quality one-on-one time with the baby before they started daycare.

Unfortunately for many men in the legal profession, taking any more than a couple weeks of parental leave is considered unusual. According to Statistics Canada, only 46% of dads took any paternity leave (compared to 88% of moms), and dads took significantly less time off than moms.1 I'm not aware of legal-specific data, but I'm sure our profession isn't bucking any

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