Sweden has a very strong parental care for young children. You can get extended paid parental leave, to be used in blocks of time up until the child is eight years old. This allows parents to take time off when the child needs them, reduce their working hours to six per day instead of eight during much of the child's pre-school years, along with providing an incentive for fathers to take a greater share of parental leave. These reforms are good sense, and that's something perhaps this committee could look at. It's not just maternal, but parental leave, and it includes the father and mother and gives more flexibility. That's something you would support.
On May 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.