Children in the Sejm will teach us the importance of caring work

The work of concern is mostly invisible. It happens somewhere in home diapers, in the private sphere, and about women – due to the fact that they are most frequently delegated to it – it is said that they "sit at home" on motherly or parental grounds, or erstwhile children are ill.

“Sits” – my experience says that this is the last position you can take erstwhile taking care of children. Unless you read them or feed them. But just to sit there? I don't remember. I remember sometimes it rains. due to the fact that care is an business requiring constant vigilance, commitment, enthusiasm, patience, a sense of humor – not for a day or two, but months and years.

But you can't see it all. So sometimes, erstwhile you do care work, you gotta face loneliness and deficiency of contact with adults. Invisible work is besides low-paid. Parent leave lasts 32 weeks and amounts to 80 percent of the wage if you have a occupation contract of course. A individual whose care makes it impossible to return to work can anticipate a kid allowance of PLN 400 per month.

Members have no leave of absence. Their work is irregular. Sometimes they have no 1 to leave the baby with. And fortunately, due to the fact that thanks to the work of caring in the Sejm with children, caring work enters the public sphere, it becomes visible, even real.

In the erstwhile word in the Sejm with children, 1 could see Marcelina Zawisza and Daria Gosek-Popiołek, this year MP of PO Kinga Gajewska brought a child, whom she explained with tears in her eyes, she had no 1 to leave with. She was criticized, asked if the Sejm was a kindergarten, asked if she would breastfeed. due to the fact that – it is known – public breast-feeding is simply a sin and an insult to God, that is why the suffocating boxes for changing and feeding shops and institutions place between the toilet and the broom rack.

Simon Holovnia besides came to the Sejm with the child. “This is why we are mothers and fathers to take care of our children erstwhile they request it,” he said and announced that he would check whether there was a anticipation of creating a place for children in the Sejm for meetings.

I would like this Sejm to be the place where parents can just come with their children," he said Organisation.

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He hasn't met him. A parent who takes care of a kid is inactive a commendable departure from the rule, and it can inspire not only admiration but besides compassion. A female inactive for motherhood can either be disciplined, hindering her life, hating, ordering her to come home and show up again only erstwhile the kid is big, or forgetting that if you want to make a career, you gotta quit your individual life. But even then, public opinion can be put at hazard due to the fact that the deficiency of children is expected to prove excessive ambition and push for power. You won't.

Nothing will change if we pretend we don't care. This work must be seen and appreciated. The translation of the fact that you have a kid or another individual who needs care is simply humiliating. As well as constantly proving that, despite children, a man is fit for work, or that he is not a claimable “magic”.

Donald Tusk proposed "grandmother" – I hope she remembers that – so that we can end the exploitation of grandmothers who have done care work for free so far.

Now – I hope this will work – we will be watching care work in relations with the Sejm fried by Marshal Holovnia. It turns out you gotta hire a babysitter, you can order catering, cleaning before, after and during. Pay for these services. It turns out that care is work, essential and very important. It may even turn out that there is no reason to reduce salaries by 20% during maternity leave, just erstwhile the essential expenditure increases. And the 400 PLN welfare allowance will prove to be just ridiculous money.

Finally, it may turn out that universal access to nursery and kindergarten, located in New Left Program, is simply a first-class matter, and the law guaranteeing it in any larger and smaller municipality will be awarded a gold button or something similar.

Simon Holovnia, explaining his thought of creating a place for children in the Sejm, said: “It is known how it is with nursery and kindergarten. And sometimes children get sick.”

That's right. It concerns all parents, not just those working in agrarian areas. By the way, would it be only for the children of Members or for safety workers, administration, law enforcement, children of those who clean?