Offering shared parental leave from work reduces one of the causes of the gender pay gap: the assumption that women will time off for babies and men will not.

It will also enable babies to feel less stress, which will help them grow up healthier.

The climate crisis will give them too much stress, all too soon, which is part of why people should avoid having babies nowadays. But starting the stress when they are newborns is not a humane way of making this point.