Other than increasing family bonding time, I feel that enacting paternity laws will also help to improve another aspect of the economy, the job market. If you observe what happens when your female colleagues go for their maternity leave, it's quite usual to see a temporary staff being hired to take over the job scope for that duration.
How does this help improve the job market? Very often many job seekers are unable to sell themselves, but they are in actual fact quite efficient and talented. Having this temporary arrangement will help these group of people to get more "airtime" and allow employers to unearth their talents. I've seen this happen to some of the female temps that came in.
By enacting paternity laws, not only do you help the guys take care of their loved ones during this critical period, it will also help others gain exposure in the job scope that they may not have the chance to do, be in a new hire or a internal transfer.
The main reason to enact a paternity law is of course that guys should have the right to take care of new borns, but it helps that there are other supporting reasons for it. So when will this happen?
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