{"id":12006,"date":"2022-03-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/showusyourleave-may-change-parental-leave-forever\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:01:20","slug":"showusyourleave-may-change-parental-leave-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellable.co\/blog\/showusyourleave-may-change-parental-leave-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"How #showusyourleave May Change Parental Leave Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to a Pew Research poll<\/a>, 72% of mothers with children 18 months or younger work part- or full-time\u2014up 21 percentage points over the past half-century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For these working women, paid leave is critical. A recent systematic analysis<\/a> found that paid maternity leave is associated with mental and physical health benefits for mothers and their children, including a decrease in postpartum depression, improved infant attachment, a decrease in infant mortality, and a reduction in mother and infant rehospitalizations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, U.S. policy has yet to adapt. Of the 41 countries included in the Pew survey<\/a>, the U.S. was the only one not to provide a government-mandated paid parental leave program.<\/p>\n\n\n

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To address this problem, President Biden proposed \u201cThe American Families Plan<\/a>\u201d in early 2021. The proposal would have set aside $225 billion to provide three months of paid family and medical leave for workers after having a child as well as for rehabilitating from an illness, caring for a disabled relative, or dealing with a partner\u2019s military deployment. Unfortunately, not more than five months after it was introduced, paid family leave was dropped from the larger \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d framework in which it was originally included. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After learning about the administration\u2019s change of plan, cofounder of theSkimm, Danielle Weisberg, turned to social media to express her disappointment. In her Instagram post, she stated, \u201cTo continue to be a competitive, modern, and at all equitable society\u2014we need to get our sh** together when it comes to how we support parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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