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Paid family leave is an investment in public health, not a handout

  • Written by Darby Saxbe, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Protected time for new families could pay health dividends later.Jacob Lund/Shutterstock

Most Americans – on both sides of the political aisle – say they supportpaid parental leave. However, we haven’t yet found the political will to make it happen. In part, that’s because the discussion always seems to start with the...

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