Stay@home - The decline in stay at home parents.
OPINION: I know what the experts say, I know what the research says, I know what the benefits are, but I just cannot afford to be a full time stay-at-home mum. This January I will go on maternity leave for the first time. Before that even happens I find myself already trying to answer whether I will return to work at the end of 26 weeks of paid parental leave, or come back at the end of the year that my employer has to hold my job open for. Or whether I will come back at all. Whether I will decide to leave my job and continue being a stay-at-home mum.