Paternity leave is “paid or unpaid leave taken by a father following the birth of his child” (Heery & Noon, 2008). In Hong Kong, fathers can enjoy three days’ paternity leave from their employers according to the Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2014. The law is implemented on 27 February 2015 (“Statutory Paternity Leave,” 2015). The paternity leave should be encouraged in Hong Kong. This essay examines the benefits of the paternity leave in Hong Kong. This essay argues for three main reasons which
that we face to face with in our everyday life. Entering relationship needs patience, understanding, respect and most especially trust where in it serves as a foundation of each couples that later will lead to have a healthier relationship. First cousin relationship
FIn my nuclear family, I have my mother, father, and my younger brother and sister. Some members of my extended family consists of my nana and poppop on my father’s side of the family, as well as my grandma on my mother’s side. I am not blood related to my grandma because my mother was adopted when she was four years old. I am extremely grateful because most of my grandparents are still alive, both of my parents are still alive, and both of my parents are still married. My Dad’s family comes from
I waited tentatively next to my cousins in a line that was quickly shortening; I tapped my foot and jumped every time the roller coaster rumbled down the steep track that was too close to me for comfort. I started thinking back to my decision to go on this beast of a roller coaster known as The Phoenix. Why in the world had I decided to go on this huge ride when I had never been on a roller coaster before, and it would’ve been fine just to go with the younger children and go on some of the more tame
"An Amazing wedding dress" A Real Story of America Lilly Friedman doesn't remember the last name of the girl who developed and stitched the wedding dress she used when she stepped down the section over sixty decades back. For the high, lanky twenty-one-year-old who had lived through starvation, disease and pain this was a different kind of task. How was he ever going to discover such an outfit in the Bergen-Belsen Removed Person's camping, where they thought thankful for the outfits on their backs
Individuals may define their own families in many different ways. I would describe my family as being blended. My brother and I have different fathers, but we are still family. This aspect is important in my concept of family because even if I do not talk to all of my family members every day, I still have this connection where they will support any decision that I officially decide on. Family will support the decisions no matter what happens and not turn against one another. On the contrary, there
The origin of the word family are going back to the Latin word families meaning “servants of a household”, and its meaning alters due to various perspectives. Family is defined as “a group consisting of one or two parents, their children and close relations” according to Oxford dictionary. However, there are different standpoints about it in Kurdish culture based on the people’s educational level. Firstly, among the educated or modernized members of the community family is explicated as the source
The authors, psychiatrist, use data from the Lincoln Prairie Behavioral Health Center inpatient unit making charts of 143 children under 12 years of age. The research uses the number of hospitalizations and family structure as their independent variable. They use family mental health and any possible trauma that the children went through as the secondary independent variables. The results of these variables were used to make statistics reference to the effect on the family structure and mental health
and Amelia’s own broken heart. He is an evil man without any redeeming characteristics and he uses Lymon’s attraction to him as a weapon against Amelia. The climax of the story of The Ballad of the Sad Café is set during the night, when Macy and Lymon destroy the café, steal Miss. Amelia’s belonging and break her still by morning