Sure, I’ll try.
I believe that freedom and choice are better than coercion and force. Now, sometimes people choose to harm others, so we have to use force to stop them. And sometimes people choose to not pay for things that benefit everyone, so we force them to pay.
The fact that I like freedom and choice means that I think we should limit the force and coercion to only the bare minimum necessary. It should be used for only those things that are really necessary.
So, now let’s talk about paid parental leave. A job is a relationship between two people, and generally those two people set the terms of the relationship (i.e., there is freedom and choice involved). That makes me happy, because I like freedom and choice.
Now, someone comes along and says that there should be a law that requires employers to pay their employees while they don’t work for a certain amount of time after they have a kid.
Some people ask “would society be a better place if people had paid parental leave?” and base their feelings about the law on their answer to that question. But I ask “is paid parental leave important enough to justify bringing coercion and force to bear on the freedom and choice exercised by the employer and employee?” And my answer is no–if someone wants paid parental leave, then they can bargain for it. Paid parental leave isn’t one of those very few things that it makes sense to use force over (like stopping people from hurting one another or funding a military to protect us from enemies). People who want it can obtain through freedom and choice–there’s no need to force others to give it to them.