Parental leave laws are failing single parents
- Written by Deborah Widiss, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs; Professor of Law and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow, Indiana University
Single-parent families are getting less paid leave but perhaps need more of it.shurkin_son/Shutterstock.comThe two parties in Congress don’t agree on much these days. However, in the final days of December, they struck a deal that will give about 2 million federal workers paid time off following the birth of a baby, an adoption or the...