I'm a mother of a 14 month old boy and let me tell you - the parental leave is great. I was home for 11 months fulltime, with his father being home with us on mondays. Then we were home together for 6 weeks. Then his father took over full time and will be home until our son is 1,5 years old. It's been great. 🙂
And about the 40 hour week - is that a good thing?! *Looking at Norway*