Essay On Maternity Leave

Motherhood is known to be both a challenging and joyful experience for the majority of women. Governments worldwide commonly support young mothers by providing them with paid vacations, or maternity leave from work. Though in the United States it is often not paid, in a number of countries such as Australia or the Czech Republic mothers receive payments of up to 100% of their wages. At the same time, women after childbirth require as much attention as newborns, and this is when men are most needed. Young fathers would also like to have free time to dedicate to their families and especially children. However, typically, governments provide men with a short paternity leave or none at all.
Unlike maternity leave, paid vacations provided for young
“Father’s leave is linked to more involvement in childcare activities such as helping a baby to eat, changing diapers, getting up in the night, bathing and reading to a child, compared to fathers who took no leave. There was some evidence of children having better cognitive outcomes when fathers were more involved early on in their lives,” says Dr. Jennifer Baxter, the author of the study. It is just as important for a father to connect and spend time with the new baby as it is for the mother to do so, but this is not able to happen due to the lack of paternity leave.
It may seem to be an indirect argument, but paid paternity leave contributes to economies as well. First of all, it helps women return to their workplaces at a quicker rate; secondly, paternity leave strengthens family relationships and bonds making people happier. To companies, happy families mean happy employees. This results in an increase of productivity and loyalty to a