Arts as Astra

I really have to wonder how the correlation and causation work there. Maybe the fathers who take time off are more likely to have good relationships with their wives, which promotes child well-being. Maybe they are more likely to have jobs which pay them really well and have good benefits, again with implications for child well-being. Maybe they just like kids better. This article gives no evidence of anything like that having been controlled for, so no reason to believe that taking paternity leave, per se, improves child outcomes.

Mind you I'm all for it and nonnihil will be reducing his hours and telecommuting when I go back to work in a few weeks. But I don't think you can make a particularly strong argument on this basis.