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Bad Parental Policies Are Leaving Moms Estranged from Infants
American moms resume work before infants start recognizing them
There are a lot of problems with the average corporate’s workplace policies. The most talked-about ones are unfair wages, gender wage gaps, unethical work hours, non-inclusive cultures, and so on.
However, the lesser-talked-about issue that may be having the most long-lasting and deepest negative impact on your life might be bad, insensitive parental policies.
The other day my wife told me how countries like Sweden give 12–18 months in paid parental leave and allow you to reduce your working hours to 75% of the usual until your child turns 8.
That is probably the stuff that parental policy dreams are made of, but probably not easy to implement globally.
However, much to my shock, the American parental policies were shockingly poor, which is surprising since it is a country that is supposed to be at the forefront of the developed corporate world. If Corporate culture had a torch-bearer, it should be Corporate America for the sheer outsized impact it has on the rest of the world. And it should be the one leading by example.
Apparently, it isn’t so.
