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82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as popular as chocolate

  • Written by Chris Knoester, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University
imageMost U.S. parents who take time off work to tend to newborns currently use unpaid leave.Whitney Curti/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesimageCC BY-SA

The United States is the only wealthy nation that doesn’t guarantee paid leave to mothers after they give birth or adopt a child. The vast majority of Americans would like to see that change.

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