added by Avni Patel Thompson · updated 2y ago
Without Parental Leave I Might Be Dead
You can love your kids deeply and hate being a mom. You can hold your children to the bone and still proclaim how sucky it is to be a female parent, in America at least, with our lack of paid family leave or high-quality day care and the cultural insistence that “good women” should stake their entire lives on the opportunity.
from Opinion | The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children by Elise Loehnen
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- Most of us encounter steep learning curves as well as wobbly balancing acts as parents, but in recent decades, parents have been left to face those challenges with heavier career responsibilities and fewer support systems. Families with dual incomes and single-working parents are on the rise, mothers are the fastest growing segment of the workforce... See more
from Our Investment In Cleo by Greylock
Mo Shafieeha added
Between quality childcare and longer parental leaves, the bigger contributor to a healthy and productive son is a longer parental leave.
from The Boy Crisis by John Gray PhD
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