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- Fine Arts (3)
- Health+Home (1)
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HOW IT WORKS
At the end of each article you will find comments, questions, or clues to for an approach to analise and discuss. These hints are meant to be just an starting point from many one can take to start the conversation about the subject. All points of views are welcome and encourage. That is what we are here for!
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Salamander
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Rain frogs are dependent on moist habitats to lay their eggs in trees. Warming and drying trends from human-caused climate change may interfere with these frogs' ability to reproduce. Caption and photo by: Paul S. Hamilton.
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Deforestation seen in the forground of this image form Cerro Pata de Pájaro has occured mainly for cattle grazing. Remnant forests still containing rich biodiversity are seen on the mountaintops in the region, but are under threat from continued deforestation as well as global warming. Caption and photo by: Paul S. Hamilton.
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Vocabulary
-"paid time off": time getting paid without working
-"maternity leave ": time given to mothers free from work before and after giving birth
-"maternity leave ": time given to mothers free from work before and after giving birth
Comments on Parental Leave
Ø Davster/ And allowing people more time off is going to help us pull out of this depression in what way?
Ø Gdog2/ Ill advised tinkering by Nanny. Who's paying?? just what families need both parents off work at that time. would it not just be better to reduce the financial burden by lowering the tax on childrens items nappies are expensive as hell.
Ø Alickboots/ What man in his right mind would want to spend that long at home?
Ø Stevemarson/ Meanwhile, the rest of us will do your work for you and pay for your personal choices. Small businesses will face further financial problems having to recruit even more temporary staff to cover for all this paid leave. Yet it is not an option to choose not to employ someone on the basis of the future disruption and cost they will cause you.
Makes you wonder how our parents brought us up so much better without being given all this paid time off, having to wash our nappies, not having parking spaces reserved everywhere for them (even if they'd had a car) and without having benefits thrown at them.
It's your choice to have them. Manage or don't have them.
Ø Bubblehead/ I agree with stevemarson. Why does having children qualify the parents for so many perks? Are we in danger of becoming extinct or something?
Ø StokeyMark/ My word there are some angry, wealth-obsessed people around these days. I'm of working age, and don't currently have any plans to have children yet I think this is a terrific idea. Do you know why? Because I think people are more important than money.