Second edition
Excerpts from the executive summary:
For millions of parents throughout the country, a child’s birth or adoption means stretched finances and unsettling concerns about whether caring for their new baby will cost them their jobs. Our nation’s failure to provide key supports to new parents – including job-protected paid family and medical leave to care for a new child or recover from childbirth – adds significant pressure and harms millions of families during what should be one of the happiest times in their lives.