- What workplace policies exist for parents before and after childbirth?
- What workplace policies exist for parents to meet the needs of older children?
In light of considerable evidence indicating the importance of mothers’ and fathers’ roles in meeting the developmental, health, and educational needs of infants and children, our data provides a much needed look at labor policies that affect parents. We investigated policies that determine the extent to which parents are available to their children to support them in their infancy, particularly via maternity/paternity leave and breastfeeding policies, as well as to provide for the health and educational needs of their children via parental leave provisions, wage replacement for leave, and wage premiums for night work.