Maternal Leave: The Benefits Of Family Leave

With some families living isolated from close relatives, it may be difficult for the mother’s family to support her after the birth of the child. “A study released in January found that fathers who took two or more weeks of leave upon their child's birth are more likely to be involved in the direct care of their children beyond leave” (Gringleburg). The time proceeding childbirth is the most stressful and tedious time. Parents have to adjust to the new baby and his or her schedule, especially the mother. With the both parents home, a lot of the stress is taken off the mother be... ... middle of paper ... ...y and should be able to be there to play that role.

According to Wright & Leahey, stage three consists of families with young children. In this stage, adults take up responsibilities as caregivers to the younger generations. The demand of dependent children can be challenging for parents who are heavily involved in career development. The family understands that baby’s cry and sleep disruption would be a challenge to them in the next couple of weeks but they believe they can adjust to the situation and accept it as a new change in their life. This stage is when some adjustments are made in the family to make space for the child.

Due to the many years they have not been parents, many grandparent will need to be educated on the recent changes to being parents. Some of the areas may include: child development, newly discovered childhood disorders such as ADHD or ADD, depression, and conduct disorders. (Dolbin-MacNab, 2006, p.2) In many instances the grandparents will shape their parenting of their grandchildren by how they raised their own children and where they are now socioeconomically. (Dolbin-MacNab, 2006, p.3) Many of the grandparents interviewed for this study described the feeling of “personal satisfaction” as they tried to do things differently with the raising of their grandchildren than they did with their own children. For this study, fifty-two grandparents and their grandchildren were recruited to participate.

Reasons for parental leave would be financial issue, bonding time and educational increases. The last topic talks about the issues and cons of having parental leave for mainly mothers. The employers in the United States

Thus, in cases when mothers or fathers avoid their parental responsibilities, they should be forced to spend more time with their children. This can be achieved by making a law that will require mothers or fathers to financially support their child, monitoring a banking or checking account and to provide counseling for their child. Over the recent years, the traditional family structure has steadily evolved. The importance of marriage and the traditional idea of two parent homes have subsided as single parenting has prevailed and become more common. Phillip Cooper and Daniel P. Mueller, directors of a Community Needs Assessment program, note that “almost one in two children who are now infants will live in a single parent family before age 18 (169.)

As of right now, the U.S. does not have a direct law pertaining to paternity leave; Paternity leave is a period of absence from work granted to a father around the birth of his child. A study that was recently released in January shows that fathers who take a leave of two or more weeks, are more likely to be involved in childcare related activities. Therefore, fathers should be allowed paid paternity leave from work. In previous history, it has always been that men were dominant in the work field and women were devoted to the private house hold of children or cleaning. During WWII, women took on many caring responsibilities and nursing the wounded soldiers back to health.

This time would be spent in a daycare with a babysitter, or in another program, and the mother would spend numerous hours away from her family. This leaves the child or children without the beneficial features that parents provide that foster development during infancy and early childhood, which are critical stages of development that form a foundation for the future well-being of children. Infancy and early childhood are the most advanced periods of a child’s development, and during these periods development is beneficial to a productive life of a child (Berger, 2011). A child’s family has more influence on development through infancy and early

Arthur and Jennifer ... ... middle of paper ... ...er daily activities. Each family member will describe how helping each other made him or her feel and how receiving help from someone else change their view to helping others. Treatment Termination. The length of treatment for this family will determine how long it will take the parents to gain custody of Collin their younger child. Progress in treatment is determined once the family has united and continues to report and demonstrate improvement while maintaining living together.

Babies in the Workplace As we move into the new millennium more and more employers are allowing, some are even encouraging, their employees to bring their newborn babies to work with them. This is probably one of the greatest changes in child care norms that this country has seen in the past 30 years. Once upon a time, when a woman had a baby she almost always quit her job to raise her child, depending on her husband to support her and her child. Then along came the idea of maternity leave. This is when a woman takes a certain amount of time off to be with newborn.

The closeness of families allows the family to be more aware of what is happening with each other. Thus allowing for assistance to be more readily given. Through the kids living with parents until they marry they have the opportunity to save more money for when they are starting their life on their own. The drawback to the children continuing to live with parents is the strife that comes from the child being an adult but still living in their parents house. Living with their parents until marriage may also cause the children to have a steep learning curve when they marry.