Family Leave Needs to be Fixed, NOW
The worst part about stories like these is they’re the ones we need to hear the most.
Amber Scorah had made the difficult decision to return to work, after giving birth three months before. She attempted to get an unpaid extension to her maternity leave, but was denied. She either had to return to work now, or be let go. On the first day – THE FIRST DAY – she went back, her son Karl died at day care. She wrote an article for the New York Times Motherlode” section, and uses it as a way to speak out against being forced to leave her child just to keep a means to provide for him.
“This… isn’t about day-care safety. This isn’t an indictment of the company I work for. I had one of the better parental leave policies of anyone I know. What this is about is that my infant died in the care of a stranger, when he should have been with me. Our culture demanded it… A mother should never have no choice but to leave her infant with a strange…
We need to fix this, now.