I suspect some families don't have family leave. This only creates more sick kids and further impacts school attendance. All parents should have family leave time to care for their family.
Read More"We need paid family leave because I need to be able to leave without fear."
The hardest thing was having to make the decision to keep working and neglect my family needs, or leave and take the risk of being homeless again due to lack of income.
Read More"Stressed employees do not make good workers"
If families do not have time to be present to deal with health and emotional issues, the family will break down. Stressed employees do not make good workers, so both employers and employees suffer when employees are at work while they are thinking of family members who need them
Read More"We didn't even know if he would live to have the surgeries…"
The hardest thing about this situation was thinking of others who, if they had landed in our situation, would have been left out in the cold with no leave or unable to take the unpaid leave.
Read More"This causes a ripple effect of more people getting sick."
Many families are not as lucky as ours. My children can take off work to care for their families. However, many people lose their money if they stay home with a sick child, or are sick themselves. This causes a ripple effect of more people getting sick. It is important to allow people family leave, so that our society is both healthier and richer.
Read More"The idea of even starting a family..."
The idea of even starting a family — you know, what people do and have done for millennia — is a foreign one to me because it means being an absentee father, having to work a tyrannical amount to make it happen. There's no way my partner and I could afford to live anywhere without one another.
Read More"It could have cost me my job to leave early to deal with my distraught wife and injured step daughter"
The hardest thing about this situation was that my continued employment required 100% attendance, which made it both unaffordable and harder for my wife. The employer didn't care or want to hear about it, and told me to just get back to work and not bother them with personal issues.
Read More"My wife's disability because of Multiple Sclerosis is a daily struggle."
The unpaid FMLA allows me not to lose my job, but it sure would be nice to have paid FMLA.
It might be the difference from paying for medicine or groceries.
Read More"It would make our state exceptionally more family friendly"
My husband and I are planning on having a child in the next year. The problem is, I provide half our income and I work a very physical job. Right now, my work is happy to give me the time off, but I get no income during that time. That just compounds the issue of how much having a child costs
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