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The High Cost of Denying Male Caregiving

By Patrick A. Coleman

Ivanka's Parental Leave Plan Puts All Parents At Risk

By Dave Baldwin

Paternity Leave Hasn't Caught Up With What Dads Deserve

The State of Paternity Leave in America

America’s Parental Leave Lag Highlights the Ugly Truth About Flexible Work

By Lauren Razavi

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America’s Parental Leave Lag Highlights the Ugly Truth About Flexible Work The reality is that, though flexibility can allow for pick-ups, quiet moments and proximity, it comes at a heavy cost.

The MLB Is Slowly Making Paternity Leave a Big League Conversation While it offers a meager number of days off for new dads, the MLB's paternity policy does work by bringing the conversation, well, into the big leagues.

Mark Zuckerberg Continues to Lead By Example on Paternity Leave The Facebook founder announced he will take two months off for the birth of his second daughter.

Call Yourself A Feminist? Prove It By Taking Your Paternity Leave Men: it’s time to man up. Not because it’s important for women, though that’s a good reason. But because it’s important for us. And for our kids.

The Surprising Ways Taking Paternity Leave Helps Your Spouse Paternity leave is great for you, but it's also great for your spouse.

How These New Fathers Formed a Thriving Community for Stay at Home Dads Two friends and new fathers formed a turned a weekly lunch into City Dads, a nationwide group of 9,000 fathers in 30 major cities.

How to Prepare for Your Return to Work After Paternity Leave There will be upsides, of course (you’ll be having real adult conversations again) and downsides (you’ll miss the hell out of that baby, and your spouse.)

How Joe Fain Made Parental Leave a Personal, Bipartisan Issue "I think we have created a model that the rest of the country can follow."

How to Inform Your Boss About Your Paternity Leave When Your Boss Sucks It's a conversation that requires some tact.

Without Strong Family Leave Policies, It’s the Baby Boomers That Will Really Suffer The number of people 65 or older is expected to double by more than 30 million in the next 15 years. Many will need people to take off work to care for them.

Fake Ad Imagines a Woman Who’s Been Pregnant for Six Years

What’s Parental Leave’s Biggest Benefit? Building Confident Fathers

Will the Future of Parental Leave Include Grandparents?

We Need New Politics to Make America Mate Again Japan and Germany are in crisis. America is next. But will we actually change policy?

New York’s New Family Leave is a Huge Win for All Caregivers

Could ‘Viking Economics’ Take Over America? What would happen if the U.S. tried to adopt Scandinavia's generous paid leave policies? A long conversation and a lot of good.

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