It's a big issue for small and medium sized businesses. You hire and train someone, and then after within a year or two of being hired, for personal reasons they vanish for 14-18 months during which you cannot permanently replace them, and then when the original employee returns you're often compelled to terminate or at best reassign the person who's been doing the job well for sometimes close to two years. We need babies, I get it, but shouldn't there be some compensation for businesses when the government requires them to take a financial hit? I know companies that prefer to hire women in their 40s for this reason.