Provide paid maternity and paternity leave for 1 year for parents who live with the child.
Setting up a bond with your baby and healing after birth, along with suffering sleep loss are all reasons we should help parents care for their new family member and themselves.
The surgeon general of the United States has said parents are strssed to levels that are unhealthy. Their stress affects their children. Parents would have less stress if they could tend to their first priority - their new child - instead of worrying about the consequences of lost wages.
Paid maternal and paternity leave would allow parents to set their children and family up for success.