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Originally Posted by whitev70r
For those who are having kids ... would you (assuming mostly fathers here) take some parental leave and share it with the wifey? Or, let wifey take the whole year?
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Wife used 1.5 years, and I used 3 weeks vacation (without sharing the time with the wife).
One thing to consider with the 1 year vs 1.5 year maternal EI thing, is that the same $ is divided over 1 year, or 1.5 years. BUT, if your wife has to return to work earlier for whatever reason, the remainder is forfeit. So for us, just because we had that possibility, we told the wife's work we're taking 1.5 years off, but only got EI for the first year. Those last 6 months were rough though, lol.