In the United States, the options for taking parental leave are limited. While federal (and many state) laws entitle U.S. employees to take time off from work to care for a child, the leave is unpaid unless a generous employer has a policy providing for paid leave. This means that taking leave to care for a child is not so easy for many American families.
The United States lags behind other countries when it comes to paid parental leave at the national level. A February 2017 survey published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development revealed that, of 41 developed countries, the United States is the only one without a national paid maternity leave law, and many of the other member countries also have paid leave laws that apply to both male and female parents.
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