Plagued by career and financial worries, men aren’t sold on being stay-at-home dads, but non-money factors also may be at play.
By Garry Kranz Comments 0 | Recommend 0
Office vs. Home:Even if afforded the opportunity, nearly six in 10 working
fathers would not take company-paid paternity leave, according to a study by
Melville, New York-based staffing company Adecco USA. Mostly feeding this
reluctance are financial worries. Nearly half those surveyed (46 percent) say
they would be unable to afford to take the leave, even at partial salary. Read
between the lines, however, and a commentary emerges on modern fatherhood. Of
fathers who would reject paternity time, 12 percent don’t believe they could do
as good a job caring for children as mothers do, while 8 percent “don’t have the
patience to spend that much time” with an infant. Nearly a quarter say they
devote more time to their professional life than fatherhood, compared with 11
percent of mothers.
Workforce Management contributing editor Garry Kranz is based in Richmond, Virginia. E-mail editors@workforce.com to comment.
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