[IELTS] Paternity leave

IELTS Writing Task 2

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All fathers should be entitled for a paternity leave when their child is born. What is your opinion on that?

It is said that after delivering a child from a mother, paternity leave is natural for every father. From my point of view, I firmly agree that all working fathers should be given the opportunity to spend time with their child and wife.

To begin with, it is not only mothers who should take care of their children but also fathers. It is because fathers also get involved in pregnancy. In other words, both parents automatically have obligations to raise their offsprings equally. In addition, the support of a husband can be necessary for a wife before and after a child is born. This is because there are numerous things like household chores that mothers cannot do during that period that fathers can take over.

Moreover, fathers can have an emotional attachment that mothers cannot provide. For example, in general, fathers are likely to possess tough character and this provides an emotional security to development of a child. Meanwhile, as mandated by law, companies are required to provide working fathers with paternity leave in order to spend time with their child and wife. In Korea, the government encourages working fathers who work in private and public organizations to take the opportunity to leave from work temporarily during the neonatal stage of their child. Through these reasons, the society is giving importance to the obligations of a father towards his wife and child.

In conclusion, It is a must for fathers to get paternity leave to be able to take part in the development of a child.

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Planning

Paternity leave

Reasons.

1. Not only mother but also father should take care of children since they give birth to babies, they automatically have a duty, obligation to raise them

2. Father can have a variety of effects that mother cannot

3. neonatal period is significant period for babies to be adapted to the new environment

4. Can support wife, assist household chores

5. Emotional attachment

However, nurturing children is not an issue of weighing the importance between mothers and fathers, so

The maternity leave is commonly mentioned since mothers are the actual people who bear children. However, fathers

Last but not least, neonatal period is a significant period for babies to be adapted to the new environment.