Opinion: Don’t let work “rat race” stop US from giving newborns “the attention they deserve”
The US is the only first-world country without a mandate for paid leave at the birth of a child, but we shouldn’t let “a world obsessed with work and rat races and networking happy hours” stop us from giving some of that attention to newborn babies at least through maternity leave, writes Matt Purple for The American Conservative. As a father of a one-month-old, he was able to benefit from Washington, DC’s paid leave program, but only 17% of workers in the US are able to take advantage of similar paid maternity leave options, he writes.