PBS Origins 's video: Why Doesn t the US Have Paid Parental Leave

Check out Sound Field! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww The day is finally here! Your baby has arrived and you're officially a new parent! But how long until that new baby smell wears off and you're forced to return to work and find reliable childcare? Today Danielle looks at the history maternity leave around the world and why the United States is one of eight nations in the world without any guaranteed, government regulated PAID parental leave. Check out Sound Field! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww Special thanks to our Historian Harry Brisson and Archivist Sam on Patreon! Join them at https://www.patreon.com/originofeverything Created and Hosted by Danielle Bainbridge Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios --- Follow us on... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/originofeverythingpbs/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pbsoriginofeverything/?hl=en --- Origin of Everything is a show about the undertold histories and cultural dialogues that make up our collective story. From the food we eat, to the trivia and fun facts we can’t seem to get out of our heads, to the social issues we can’t stop debating, everything around us has a history. Origin of Everything is here to explore it all. We like to think that no topic is too small or too challenging to get started. Works Cited: Baker, Maureen. "Parental Benefit Policies and the Gendered Division of Labor." Social Service Review 71, no. 1 (1997): 51-71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30012606. Avendano, Mauricio, Lisa Berkman, Agar Brugiavini, Giacomo Pasini. “The long-run effect of maternity leave benefits on mental health: Evidence from European Countries.” Social Science & Medicine, vol. 132 (May 2015): 45-53. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795361500129X Berger, Lawrence M., Jennifer Hill, and Jane Waldfogel. "Maternity Leave, Early Maternal Employment and Child Health and Development in the US." The Economic Journal 115, no. 501 (2005): F29-47. http://www.jstor.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/stable/3590462. Ruhm, Christopher J. “Parental Leave and Child Health.” Journal of Health Economics, vol. 19, issue 6 (2000): 931-960. Han, Wen-Jui, Jane Waldfogel, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. "The Effects of Early Maternal Employment on Later Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes." Journal of Marriage and Family 63, no. 2 (2001): 336-54. http://www.jstor.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/stable/3654596. Morgenroth, Thekla. Heilman, Madeline J. “Should I stay or should I go? Implication of maternity leave choice for perceptions of working mothers.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Vol 72 (Sept 2017): 53-56. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103116307788 https://www.striking-women.org/module/workplace-issues-past-and-present/maternity-and-paternity-leave-and-pay https://tah.oah.org/november-2016/the-history-of-family-leave-policies-in-the-united-states/ https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/90201/paid_family_leave_0.pdf https://www.worldpolicycenter.org/policies/is-paid-leave-available-for-mothers-of-infants https://fortune.com/longform/us-family-leave-parental-leave-activists/