Please I am begging you to do a major reform of maternity leave in this country. Women are being ripped from their infants who desperately need them. They are being forced to feed their children formula which is essential seed oils in a can because of the difficulty of maintaining a milk supply while working full time. Children need their mothers! We are ruining the future of America by creating kids who aren’t raised by their parents but raised by strangers. The rate of postpartum depression and anxiety also decreases as maternity leave is extended!
I support this 100000000000%
If the economy is better and skill sets are good for in demand jobs, both parents wouldn’t need to work.! Kids should be raised by parents not daycares.
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12 months of maternity leave would require employers to hold jobs open and not be able to fill them. What happens when the employer has to create additional jobs to complete the workload? They pass that expense on to the consumer. What happens when the employee decides to suck up 12 months of leave and then quits at the end of the 12 months because they never planned to return, anyway? What about employees who are pregnant when they get hired and the company spends money to get the employee trained/certified and before the company can recoup what they spent on the new employee the employee is starting 12 months of leave. You can’t discriminate against pregnant women applying for jobs but what employer is going to look at a pregnant woman and hire them knowing they won’t be available to work for a year?
People are so incredibly selfish and immoral. If you want to have a baby figure out how you can pay to live without costing your employer thousands of dollars. The same people who want 12 months off also want to own expensive houses and cars and want other people to pay off their humongous student loans.
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I mean people could just stop having babies and then the human race can just end, sound better to you?
Question, why 12 months? Why not 4-5 years until the child starts going to school? Or 17-18 years until they graduate high school? And what stops someone from taking time off and finding another job, remote or otherwise, while still getting paid from the first job. I worked with a lady who talked it over with her husband and they figured out that with the cost of child care, the cost of a car (car, maintenance, taxes, gas, insurance, etc,), food (they ate out a lot because she worked), she was working 40 hours a week for about $120.00 a month. She was a great worker, I was sad to see her leave. I know 2 other families where both parents worked, had children and one of the parents quit working to take care of them. Yes, they had to cut back. They got together with a couple of other families, both mothers in this case, but it could have been the dads. and home schooled the children, I think there were 7 or 8 kids total. The 2 girls I know were straight A students and graduated Summa Cum Laude from college. Was it easy, heck no, but was it worth it, they will tell you absolutely yes.
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I hate it for you…but you should plan to have your children at a time when you can afford to stay at home. Employers can’t hold a job open for you for a year. That is unreasonable
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I agree. However our federal legislators are far from consideration for anything offering 12 months, or even six months paid family leave.
Right now we have zero federal paid family leave.
The Dems couldn’t pass their 12 paid family leave bill because they didn’t have enough votes and all the republicans voted against it. I think we should focus on trying to get 12 weeks federal leave, or something similar, and then try to increase that leave time for future elections.
I have also proposed a related bill. It’s probably still too liberal for the GOP, but I’m just throwing this out there because I truly believe in it. It offers 12 weeks paid maternal leave, with some kickbacks to fathers AND offers unpaid 8 hours off weekly for full time working parents, and flexibility for college students who are either working or are custodial parents.