Data is from Bipartisan Policy Center

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/state-paid-family-leave-laws-across-the-u-s/

Some Notes:

  • Some of the dark blue states' programs are still in implementation (specifically those in Maine, Delaware, Maryland, and Minnesota).
  • Some states in red have state-sponsored but voluntary parental leave programs – participation by employers is not mandatory.
  • California was the first state to introduce mandatory parental leave (law became effective in 2004). New Jersey was second in 2009.

Posted by snakkerdudaniel

28 comments

  1. Just another good example of the hypocrisy. Don’t want women to have access to abortions, yet can’t provide anything of substance to help out parents.

  2. Republicans, the party of “family values”.

    the “values” they’re actually referring to: women under the thumb of men, running households and pumping out babies

  4. I love how states that want to ban abortion nationally do not have mandated time off for new mothers

  6. Are these number of weeks at 100% pay or number of weeks at any level of pay? 

  7. In Washington it’s paid for in part by withholding from all employees. So basically you’re paying for you own leave if you have kids.

  9. And canada, it’s a full year. Not quite a full pay, I think it’s 60 or 70%.

    And you can split between the mother and father anyway you want. It doesn’t just have to be the mother for a year. Paternity leave is a thing here.

    It’s nice to live in a civilized country. The US might have the money, but we have something else…

  10. Why aren’t people having more kids?! It’s such a mystery.

    Reminds me of Superstore when Amy had to go back right after giving birth, was a wreck for obvious reasons and was hard to watch.

  11. I have newborn, he’s 3 weeks old. I had zero parental leave but was able to take 2 of my 3 weeks of vacation per year. My company has been kind with cutting me slack my first week back but, it’s terrible. Anyone who’s ever been a parent and isn’t appalled at the state of parental leave in the us is a lunatic or an asshole that never wanted children in the first place.

    I have it much better than many but it’s still heart breaking. I want to be there for my wife and I want more than anything for my son to form the same bond with me, he will with her.

    As a country we need to value family waaaay more than we do. Fuck greed, fuck slave wages, fuck a ruling class whose only goal is pain.

  12. Inaccurate– the blue states are state-provided leave laws. The state collects premiums and the leave benefit is provided by the states, not employers.

  14. Just poop out the kid on the factory floor and get back to work I’m not running a charity here… The Red States.

  17. Definitions are going to be important here. Because even if you have maternity leave “permission “, that does not mean it is fully paid. And male parental leave can be allowable, but not covered fully.

  18. Explain to an ignorant guy, how do people take care of their newborns if the employers don’t give any leave? Do people have to quit their jobs or what?

  19. Of course, employers are allowed to offer more. Volvo in SC gives 4 months full pay or 6 months at 70%. They also give it to fathers as well as mothers.

  20. Once again proving a LOT people vote against their own best interest.

  21. Th is only map you need these days. Those red states are only going to get worse.

  22. What the hell? Here in Canada it is 12-18 months typically.

    Who is watching newborn babies while parents go to work?!

  23. Then the government will be like “why are our birth rates so low? it doesn’t make sense!”

  24. I had 1 day off for the birth of my twins. I asked if I could get 2 days off since I was having 2 kids. They didn’t respond

  25. I can make some assumptions, but I’d love to see the averages of the states in red.

  26. The red means, “We’re wholeheartedly for your family. Now get back to work.”

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