The U.S. lags other industrialized nations in paid parental leave, prenatal care access, and child care cost coverage¶
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q1 i? The U.S. is the only industrialized nation without a paid-leave policy for parents at or around the birth of a child, and U.S. families pay about 80 percent of direct child care costs versus about 30 percent in European countries. → A Call to Action on Behalf of U.S. Babies 2014
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A Call to Action on Behalf of U.S. Babies 2014¶
A Call to Action on Behalf of U.S. Babies. (2014). WestEd R&D Alert, Vol. 14, No. 3. http://forourbabies.org/wp/
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The article's opening comparative statement reports that the U.S. lacks a national paid-leave policy for parents at or around birth, unlike other industrialized nations. It separately reports U.S. families pay about 80 percent of direct child care costs while European families pay about 30 percent. No data sources are cited.
"The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world without a paid-leave policy for parents at or around the birth of a child."
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Related Claims¶
- Paid parental leave is associated with maternal recovery, workforce retention, earnings, and longer nursing duration — related
- Access to subsidized ECE is extremely limited for California infants and toddlers, with approximately 14% of eligible infants and toddlers enrolled
- In 2022 only one in nine eligible California children—and one in seven eligible Alameda County children—received subsidized childcare
- Publicly funded ECE programs in California served only 33% of eligible children under age 5 in 2015–16, leaving nearly 650,000 eligible children without access — related
- California's subsidized ECE system serves only a minority of eligible children, with the lowest access among infants and toddlers — related
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The U.S. lags other industrialized nations in paid parental leave, prenatal care access, and child care cost coverage |
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