It means 500 days per child. I'm sure the Courts could handle that far better than we could.
I frankly don't care about the second concern, for a few reasons (1) being the fact that it seems like an attempt to derail this thread and curtail the benefit itself and (2) because I trust the public to make the right decision here. And you know what, if they do what you're describing - so what? It's not as if we don't give free-rides in this country to big business all the time. Nothing wrong with giving the possibility of one for regular folks.