This is a proposal for a national paid parental leave law in the United States‚ a law guaranteeing both mothers and fathers time off from their employment to care for a newborn or adopted child. Parental leave is an issue which lack adversely affects the present of our society and if it continues to be so‚ can damage our future. As everyone are well aware‚ the children are the future of a country. The way they are raised impacts the type of citizens they will become. A country’s social policies play
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and still have to worry about parental leave. Not to mention the hospital costs‚ the appliance and furniture needs‚ and the stress that comes with being a new parent. It is still extremely rare to see a woman paid on her maternity leave‚ and even rarer to see a man take more than a few days after the birth of a baby. These kinds of acts promote gender stereotypes and limit new mothers and fathers. Parents‚ regardless of gender‚ should be allowed paid parental leave while awaiting the birth or adoption
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Issue: Parental leave (either parent being able to take 12 weeks off work unpaid after their children are born). Suzanne Field in her essay gives five reasons why parental leave is a myth. Men cannot feed children with breast milk‚ Fields observes. Fathers are “not recovering from carrying extra pounds for nine month‚” they haven’t experienced labor pains‚ “and their bodies are not trying to deal with changing hormones and the flow of mother’s milk‚” Fields argues.(3) Men should be out working
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Parental Leave in Society In many cases‚ couples wait until they reach a financially stable point in their lives with a reliable job for each partner before they make the decision to conceive a child. Experiencing the miracle of childbirth marks the beginning of a new chapter of a couple’s life‚ where new parents fall in love with the tiny addition to their family and take on enormous caregiving responsibilities. However‚ parents may not have enough time to balance a job and a newborn. To counter
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Paternity Leave “Paternity leave” refers to a kind of special leave granted to employees for meeting their family need. (ref 1) It is a kind of parental leave that is for caring of newborns or newly adopted children (ref 15). In the society‚ people put more emphasis on creating a better work-life balance. Paternity Leave is one of the sources of creating work-life balance. According to the studies of the University Of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme‚ it found that Paternity leave is one of the
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Maternity leave Introduction At present‚ almost every country has provisions for maternity leave that provided to the female employees. Most industrialized countries have some form of maternity or parental leave policy that effectively grants employment protection to women around childbirth and in some cases to either parent for an even longer period after childbirth (Puhani and Sonderhof‚ 2009). Maternity leaves are the temporary leaves that allowed by the company or institutions to a female
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Men Take Paternity Leave from Work Katrina Baron ENG/102 Vicki Lynn Samson Everyone knows that expecting mothers take maternity leave from work when their child is born. With that being said according the Family Medical Leave Act excepting fathers are allowed paternity leave from work. In order to better support the mother of their child along with personally care for their child‚ a father should be allowed a paternity leave. Many employers do offer paternity leave but some offer it as
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Father Should Take Paternity Leave Nowadays‚ we already get used to maternity leave‚ that because mothers should take a rest from their job during their healing time after giving birth to their child. But now fathers can take paternity leave too. Even there are people who still arguing whether fathers should take paternity leave or not. However‚ fathers who take paternity leave can be very helpful to taking care for their family. People argue that most men cannot handle the household
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Men‚ if all were given the possibility to achieve paid paternity leave‚ would have the ability to help their significant other after childbirth or adoption while remaining a healthy relationship. The mother is given a chance to recuperate after the birth if the father is there to help with the child. Wahm‚ a website for work-at-home mothers‚ states that‚ “If the father were able to get paternity leave‚ it would take a huge burden off your shoulders”. The quote is concerning the mothers who work from
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The United States is one of only three countries remaining that do not guarantee paid maternity leave to mothers. This becomes a problem not only for new mothers‚ but also creates a potentially stressful environment for both the newborn and the family. Unsubstantial and unpaid parental leave in the United States contributes to the gender pay gap‚ is damaging to new mothers‚ and contributes to the drop in birth rates amongst women in high paid positions. Many new families and especially
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