It is the right thing to do.

This causes lots of consternation with centrist voters who elect presidents more often than not

Instead of oil industry subsidies, we could spend those billions on family leave.

As someone whose not interested in having a family, I do not want to have to do other people's jobs for them just cause they want to have kids.

I already am doing 3 jobs worth of work, for 2/3 pay of one.

You know that companies are not going to hire extra to make up for this.

Family leave benefits the nation. It has certainly benefitted the countries that have it, like Sweden and Finland. The kids are healthier, and so are the parents. And it prevents immeasurable misery. It is the right thing to do.

It is against the law, at least here in California, for a worker to be saddled with two jobs without the commensurate increase in pay. And it is against the law to force a worker to work two jobs against their will, and it is against the law to fire a worker from the one job they have in retaliation for not working a second job for free. Employers should be hiring temps (and thus increasing employment!) and/or paying overtime to cover leave gaps in their workforce.

You being exploited by doing 3 jobs and being paid for 2/3 of a job is no reason to deny these universally supported government benefits.

How about we increase all workers' benefits, instead of lower everyone's in a race to the bottom? How about we support unionization so you are not exploited like that?

Your sort of self-defeating opposition reminds of the old Russian proverb: My neighbor has a cow. I do not. I want my neighbor's cow dead.

paid by the government. People who want to have kids should generally be responsible for the costs of pregnancy and having kids. I think giving people half their salary is more than generous if you include WIC and especially if you include some sort of socialized medicine, since that is the direction we seem to be headed.

More ethical and moral ways that are better for society as a whole.

“People who want to have kids should generally be responsible for the costs of pregnancy and having kids.”

A limited number of Americans are already paying for others to have children. Time to spread it across all Americans.

Anybody who pays state and federal income taxes and property taxes pay for them. I don't mind subsidizing schools and programs that children use, but I don't want to encourage people to have children if they can't afford it. Start paying people to have kids and it's Idiocracy here we come.

Most being discussed here have pretty good health insurance. It’s about what’s best for society.

I don't think it's good for society to encourage unchecked childbirth, especially if it's beyond what parents can afford. If you look at the causes of climate change and environmental degradation, you'll see that people are by far the greatest contributors. The planet is being killed by the explosion of human population growth. Policies that encourage human breeding are the opposite of what we need if we're going to stop this planet's demise.

Our current status in these areas are extreme. Extremely harmful to our nation. Harris is being bold, not extreme, IMO.