At present women get 6 months of maternity leave in India.
This is an insufficient period of time. A child needs tremendous maternal attention for the first year after which it can be steadily acclimatized to distributed attention from multiple people.
Maternity leave has to be at least one year long.
Arguments such as: "Well, how about 6 months maternity leave for the mother followed by 6 months paternity leave for the father? Work distribution needs to be "gender equal"" are meaningless in this context. Home is not "workplace" and there's a difference between wanting to bring a child into the world and raising it vs being co-workers at a company.
The child's wellbeing comes first. Period.
And a child literally yearns for its mother for the first year. If you've missed observing this fact, you're either not observant or not sincere enough about parenthood. The responsibility of changing this is all on you. Not on the child.
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