Statistics That Show Just How Out Of Whack American Work-Life Balance Is
Mom and dad are working 9 to 5
Whether or not kids should have at least one parent who stays home from work to rear them is a hotly-debated topic. And we won’t touch it now. But we will state that 70 percent of American children grow up in households where both parents go to work. That’s not to say that in other countries more families have a parent who stays home. But, they certainly get more of a chance to do so. Iceland, for example, offers five months of paid leave to each parent, plus an additional two months the parents can split up as they like. That makes a total of 12 months parents can stay home with young children.