While America fights over maternity leave, The Economist talks up paternity leave

The U.S. is the only country other than Papua New Guinea that doesn't guarantee women maternity leave after they have a baby -- a point John Oliver used to shame America a few weeks ago. The Economist goes a step further and looks at the benefits of allowing new fathers to take a few weeks off, too. In Denmark, for instance, 90 percent of dads take more than two weeks off after the birth of a child, for example, and everyone seems to benefit. In one study, fathers who took paternity leave "were ...