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Download full textWestEd, 2014
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world without a paid leave policy for parents at or around the birth of a child. Prenatal care in the U.S. remains expensive, while virtually all other industrialized countries provide free or affordable prenatal care. While families in the U.S. pay about 80 percent of the direct cost of child care…
Descriptors: Leaves of Absence, Employed Parents, Prenatal Care, Infants
