Sweden's stay-at-home dads

Katrin Bennhold of the International Herald Tribune is deeply impressed by Sweden's policy promoting lengthy male parental leave after childbirth, a state-funded benefit that 85 percent of fathers now  take advantage of. The takeaway from her 3,400-word opus with slide show yesterday has to be that a taxation level almost twice as high as that of the United States is not only sustainable but sexy: "Machos with dinosaur values don't make the top-10 lists of attractive men in women's magazines anymore," said Sweden's European Affairs Minister, Birgitta Ohlsson.