Unpaid parental leave. What a different world we might live in if families were allowed to bond with each other without the pressure of having to go back to work. I worked up to the weekend before my due date. Monday was a holiday, and she was born early on Tuesday morning. I had to go back to work when she was four and a half weeks old, or I would have lost my job (this was in the late 1980's). It was traumatic!
Things are changing slowly, but still not enough. My niece and her husband recently had their first child. He is in the military and received 12 weeks of paternity leave. I don't know if it was paid or not, but it was encouraged by his commanding officer to spend the time bonding as a family and helping his wife recover.
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